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Installing Git HTML help
This guide will help you install the local git HTML help files and set git to use them by default instead of the man pages.
Most git installations will install man files for help, but not the HTML help files (the same files seen on git’s online documentation). Installing these help files is a fairly simple process.
Windows
Msysgit installs and sets the HTML help files as the default automatically. You don’t need to do anything!
OSX
The following commands were run on an installation of the git-osx-installer. Your documentation path may be different, pay attention to the output of git help --web commit for where your git is set to look for the HTML files.
$ git help --web commit
fatal: '/usr/local/git/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory.
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/tekkub/git/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 101588, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27214/27214), done.
remote: Total 101588 (delta 73797), reused 100304 (delta 72681)
Receiving objects: 100% (101588/101588), 24.50 MiB | 377 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (73797/73797), done.
Checking out files: 100% (1652/1652), done.
$ cd git
$ make quick-install-html
GIT_VERSION = 1.6.3.3.385.g60647
make -C Documentation quick-install-html
GEN doc.dep
SUBDIR ../
make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
SUBDIR ../
make[2]: `GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
'/bin/sh' ./install-doc-quick.sh origin/html /Users/tekkub/share/doc/git-doc
$ cd /usr/local/git/share/
$ sudo mkdir doc
$ cd doc/
$ sudo mv ~/share/doc/git-doc .
$ git help --web commit
(web browser launches)
$ git config --global help.format web
Setup
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys
- How to generate SSH keys and add them to GitHub
- Troubleshooting SSH issues
- Solutions to common SSH issues
- Setting user name, email and GitHub token
- Configure your local git installation so that commits are linked to your GitHub account
- Installing Git HTML help
- How to install the local git HTML help files
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Repos
- Deleting a repo
- How to remove a repo from your GitHub account
- Moving a repo
- How to move a repo from one account to another
- Removing sensitive data
- Dealing with accidentally committed passwords or other sensitive information
- Splitting a subpath out into a new repo
- How to generate a new repo from a subpath, retaining history.
- Working with subtree merge
- How to use subtree merge to merge one repo into another as a subpath.
Collaborating
- Forking a project
- How to fork a project, submit changes, and pull from other repos in the fork network
- Post-Receive Hooks
- Working with GitHub's post-receive web hooks.
Mac
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys (OSX)
- Setting up SSH keys on Mac OSX
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Windows
- Generating SSH keys (Win/msysgit)
- Setting up SSH keys with msysgit on Windows
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Linux
- Generating SSH keys (Linux)
- Setting up SSH keys on Linux
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo