The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named
git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands.
Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear
that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the
command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn
dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
the first two chapters of link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual].
First, note that you can get documentation for a command such as "git
-diff" with:
+log --graph" with:
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-$ man git-diff
+$ man git-log
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It is a good idea to introduce yourself to git with your name and
Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
-pages. For a command such as "git clone", just use
+pages. For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
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$ man git-clone