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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Are the 'How to' documents present as man pages?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:30:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505538043.21890.4.camel@gmail.com> (raw)

I was reading the 'git revert' documentation and found the following
line in it,


    -m parent-number
    --mainline parent-number

        ...

        See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more details.


It says that the 'How-To' is present in the first section of the man
page. I tried to access it to get this,


    $ man 1 revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
    No manual entry for revert-a-faulty-merge in section 1
    No manual entry for How-To in section 1


That made me wonder whether the 'How-To' documents were present as man
pages and were installed when git is installed.

In case they are, how should I be accessing them? In case they aren't
doesn't the above seem misleading?


    -- 
    Kaartic

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-16  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-16  5:00 Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-09-16  8:54 ` Are the 'How to' documents present as man pages? Simon Ruderich
2017-09-16 11:47   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-16 12:05     ` Simon Ruderich

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