Getting help for Git commands

This Post is part of a series about Git, Git concepts, commands and usage patterns to remind me and to help me learn. The first post of the series is Git - A New Years Resolution.

If you ever need help while using Git, there are two, equivalent ways to get the comprehensive manual page help for any of the Git commands:

$ git help <verb>
$ man git-<verb>

For example, you can get the manual page help for the git config command by running

$ git help config

Last modified on 2018-01-04