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 <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 3d16e3d..b833167 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ 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 ca4363f..36ab372 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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 ------------------------------------------------ $ man git-clone