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Show the Git help files from the command prompt

Show the Git help files from the command prompt - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Visual Studio: Source Control with Git and GitHub

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Show the Git help files from the command prompt

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- When you install git, the installer adds a folder full of help files to your local drive. Use the help command in powershell to read these help docs. So type in git help and then the name of the command. I'll do that again with a different command. And let's talk about what you see. What happens is powershell launches this file, git-commit_html and of course this contains all the information about how to use the commit command or over here we got all the information how to use the branch command, including the name of the command, a synopsis of how to use it and all the switches that are available, detailed descriptions, and then all the options that are available. Same over here in the commit file, look at all these options that are available. That is the main benefit of using powershell or the command line over visual studio. If you have a complex command or set of tasks you need to perform in git, you will find…

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