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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-help.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-help.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 44fe8860b3f1..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,204 +0,0 @@ -git-help(1) -=========== - -NAME ----- -git-help - Display help information about Git - -SYNOPSIS --------- -[verse] -'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guides] - [-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE] - -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 linkgit:git[1] man page, use `git help git`. - -This page can be displayed with 'git help help' or `git help --help` - -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 linkgit: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{litdd}browse' helper script -(called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See -linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this. - -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 linkgit:git-web{litdd}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 linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this. - -GIT ---- -Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |