how do i get git to show command-line help in windows?

Question

How do i get git to show command-line help in windows?

I\'m using msysgit 1.7.4.

It\'s defaulting to open the html help in the browser.

I just want to sh

Answer 1

Issue 187 issue 696 does report:

The main problem is that we do ship neither man.exe nor the man pages.
Otherwise, you could set help.format to 'man' in /etc/gitconfig.

So right now, this isn't possible...

As jamiebarrow adds in the comments:

You could also try installing man yourself

MinGW-get install msys-man. 

man is also available as a windows binary: (found via the mingw FAQ). That page also has groff.

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As mentioned in "Getting Started - Getting Help", those three commands invokes the man page, but only in its HTML version:

$ git help 
$ git  --help
$ man git-

git -h does not print the man page, only the short usage section (nothing to do with man)