On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 05:57:30PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 20 Aug 14:31, Chris G wrote:
I want to use git to download a development version of some software.
I have downloaded and installed git onto my system, so far so good! :-)
However all the man pages tell me that I should read the "Git User's Manual" to see how to download something. However nowhere is there a clue as to what/where the "Git User's Manual" is. Can someone point me in the right direction please.
OK - see, now, this is what I will again label as "inability to use an internet search engine"... Googling for that exact phrase gives you the user manual. The official one. It's where you'd expect, too... git having its origins in maintaining the linux kernel, it's a kernel.org project:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html
I have to say you're absolutely right, I think my only excuse really is that I was stuck in "command line/man pages" mode and didn't try the obvious (though the man page could have given a URL, most do).
I will say, though, that the alternatives you've been presented with are easier reading, the official manual is not bad, but isn't the easiest of docs to read (though, it's where I generally turn to).
Yes, one of them quickly told me the basics I needed to get what I wanted.