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NAME

git-help - Display help information about Git

SYNOPSIS

git help [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose] [--[no-]external-commands] [--[no-]aliases]
git help [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>|<doc>]
git help [-g|--guides]
git help [-c|--config]
git help [--user-interfaces]
git help [--developer-interfaces]

DESCRIPTION

With no options and no <command> or <doc> given, the synopsis of the git command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed on the standard output.

If the option --all or -a is given, all available commands are printed on the standard output.

If the option --guides or -g is given, a list of the Git concept guides is also printed on the standard output.

If a command or other documentation is given, the relevant manual page will be brought up. The man program is used by default for this purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.

If an alias is given, git shows the definition of the alias on standard output. To get the manual page for the aliased command, use git <command> --help.

Note that git --help ... is identical to git help ... because the former is internally converted into the latter.

To display the git[1] man page, use git help git.

This page can be displayed with git help help or git help --help.

OPTIONS

-a
--all

Print all the available commands on the standard output.

--no-external-commands

When used with --all, exclude the listing of external "git-*" commands found in the $PATH.

--no-aliases

When used with --all, exclude the listing of configured aliases.

--verbose

When used with --all, print description for all recognized commands. This is the default.

-c
--config

List all available configuration variables. This is a short summary of the list in git-config[1].

-g
--guides

Print a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.

--user-interfaces

Print a list of the repository, command and file interfaces documentation on the standard output.

In-repository file interfaces such as .git/info/exclude are documented here (see gitrepository-layout[5]), as well as in-tree configuration such as .mailmap (see gitmailmap[5]).

This section of the documentation also covers general or widespread user-interface conventions (e.g. gitcli[7]), and pseudo-configuration such as the file-based .git/hooks/* interface described in githooks[5].

--developer-interfaces