From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git help error
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:55:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1wa25oqc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc723f590712040826o7ca36bfg35b8cb4d64ee8d2d@mail.gmail.com> (Aneesh Kumar's message of "Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:56:48 +0530")
"Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> writes:
> git help gives me the below error.
>
> [master@git]$ git help add
> No manual entry for git-add
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> [master@git]$
>
> I have the git binaries installed via --prefix
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/
> and to see the man page i have to say
>
> man -M /home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/share/man/
>
> I guess git-help need to take care of the prefix.
When you run "man" from the command line, can you say
$ man git-add
and make it work? If it fails the same way, then what you are missing
is MANPATH environment variable, isn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 16:26 git help error Aneesh Kumar
2007-12-04 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-04 18:33 ` Sergei Organov
2007-12-04 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 19:47 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-12-04 19:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-04 20:06 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-12-06 18:36 ` Sergei Organov
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