NAME

       git-help - Display help information about Git

SYNOPSIS

       git help [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose] [--[no-]external-commands] [--[no-]aliases]
       git help [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>|<guide>]
       git help [-g|--guides]
       git help [-c|--config]

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

OPTIONS

       -a, --all
           Prints all the available commands on the standard output.

       --no-external-commands
           When used with --all, exclude the listing of external "git-*" commands found in the
           $PATH.

       --no-aliases
           When used with --all, exclude the listing of configured aliases.

       --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.

       -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.

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.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite