From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:10:25 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command" X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0-rc0~169 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3861cd5582d4ae4b41a3bf4c464e780d1725ad4e;p=git.git Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command" 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 3d16e3d44..b83316724 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ for example, to test the latest version, you may prefer to start with 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: ------------------------------------------------ -$ man git-diff +$ man git-log ------------------------------------------------ It is a good idea to introduce yourself to git with your name and diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index ca4363ffc..36ab37220 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read 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 ", just use ------------------------------------------------ $ man git-clone