How do I get git manual entries?

Question

I downloaded Git source and installed it in a non-standard path. All the Git options have a -h option but the documentation listed there is very terse and many options are missing. I'd like the full documentation but am unable to find it. When I run git help log or git log --help I get the following error:

No manual entry for git-log

I've tried adding every path imaginable to PATH and MANPATH but it does no good, I still get these pesky errors. How can I get git <option> --help to work?

Answer 1

Git's manpages are (for some reason) a completely separate download from the actual source code, and are thus not installed when compiling and installing from source.

You can find the manpages for each release in git-core's downloads list .

Answer 2

在Ubuntu上，您可以使用以下命令安装手册页：

sudo apt-get install git-man

Answer 3

在这里获取manpage git：//git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-manpages.git然后复制到你的系统，比如/ usr / local / share / man /

Answer 4

Lately, if you get Git from the git repository at https://github.com/git (what a mind meddling), you will also get the documentation. Then you just have to install it.

On Ubuntu, you need to have asciidoc and xmlto installed, then you can simply

make prefix=if-you-change-binary-prefix install-doc

You should then be able to use man pages.

Answer 5

try

 man git log

I get the man info use above command.I also did not get man info use the command you used.