отображение справочной информации о Git (Display help information about Git)
Имя (Name)
git-help - Display help information about Git
Синопсис (Synopsis)
git help [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guides]
[-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE]
Описание (Description)
With no options and no COMMAND or GUIDE given, the synopsis of
the git command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands
are printed on the standard output.
If the option --all or -a is given, all available commands are
printed on the standard output.
If the option --guides or -g is given, a list of the Git concept
guides is also printed on the standard output.
If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that
command or guide is brought up. The man program is used by
default for this purpose, but this can be overridden by other
options or configuration variables.
If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on
standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command,
use git COMMAND --help.
Note that git --help ... is identical to git help ... because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
To display the git(1) man page, use git help git.
This page can be displayed with git help help or git help --help
Параметры (Options)
-a, --all
Prints all the available commands on the standard output.
This option overrides any given command or guide name.
--verbose
When used with --all print description for all recognized
commands. This is the default.
-c, --config
List all available configuration variables. This is a short
summary of the list in git-config(1).
-g, --guides
Prints a list of the Git concept guides on the standard
output. This option overrides any given command or guide
name.
-i, --info
Display manual page for the command in the info format. The
info program will be used for that purpose.
-m, --man
Display manual page for the command in the man format. This
option may be used to override a value set in the help.format
configuration variable.
By default the man program will be used to display the manual
page, but the man.viewer configuration variable may be used
to choose other display programs (see below).
-w, --web
Display manual page for the command in the web (HTML) format.
A web browser will be used for that purpose.
The web browser can be specified using the configuration
variable help.browser, or web.browser if the former is not
set. If none of these config variables is set, the git
web--browse helper script (called by git help) will pick a
suitable default. See git-web--browse(1) for more information
about this.
Конфигурационные переменные (Configuration variables)
help.format
If no command-line option is passed, the help.format
configuration variable will be checked. The following values are
supported for this variable; they make git help behave as their
corresponding command- line option:
• "man" corresponds to -m|--man,
• "info" corresponds to -i|--info,
• "web" or "html" correspond to -w|--web.
help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
The help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path will also
be checked if the web format is chosen (either by command-line
option or configuration variable). See -w|--web in the OPTIONS
section above and git-web--browse(1).
man.viewer
The man.viewer configuration variable will be checked if the man
format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
• "man": use the man program as usual,
• "woman": use emacsclient to launch the "woman" mode in emacs
(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
• "konqueror": use kfmclient to open the man page in a new
konqueror tab (see Note about konqueror below).
Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
man.<tool>.cmd configuration entry (see below).
Multiple values may be given to the man.viewer configuration
variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order
listed in the configuration file.
For example, this configuration:
[man]
viewer = konqueror
viewer = woman
will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example,
if DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be
tried.
If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer
specified in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be
tried. If that fails too, the man program will be tried anyway.
man.<tool>.path
You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man
viewer by setting the configuration variable man.<tool>.path. For
example, you can configure the absolute path to konqueror by
setting man.konqueror.path. Otherwise, git help assumes the tool
is available in PATH.
man.<tool>.cmd
When the man viewer, specified by the man.viewer configuration
variables, is not among the supported ones, then the
corresponding man.<tool>.cmd configuration variable will be
looked up. If this variable exists then the specified tool will
be treated as a custom command and a shell eval will be used to
run the command with the man page passed as arguments.
Note about konqueror
When konqueror is specified in the man.viewer configuration
variable, we launch kfmclient to try to open the man page on an
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if man.konqueror.path
is set to something like A_PATH_TO/konqueror. That means we will
try to launch A_PATH_TO/kfmclient instead.
If you really want to use konqueror, then you can use something
like the following:
[man]
viewer = konq
[man "konq"]
cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
Note about git config --global
Note that all these configuration variables should probably be
set using the --global flag, for example like this:
$ git config --global help.format web
$ git config --global web.browser firefox
as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
See git-config(1) for more information about this.
