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authortekkub <tekkub@gmail.com>2009-07-27 01:56:51 -0600
committertekkub <tekkub@gmail.com>2009-07-27 01:56:51 -0600
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Remove 'guide' layout
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---
-layout: guide
+layout: default
title: Installing Git HTML help
-subtitle: 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.
description: How to install the local git HTML help files
categories: setup
---
+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":http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/). Installing these help files is a fairly simple process.
+h2. Windows
+
+"Msysgit":http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ installs and sets the HTML help files as the default automatically. You don't need to do anything!
+
h2. OSX
The following commands were run on an installation of the "git-osx-installer":http://code.google.com/p/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.
@@ -43,7 +48,3 @@ $ git help --web commit
(web browser launches)
$ git config --global help.format web</pre>
-
-h2. Windows
-
-"Msysgit":http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ installs and sets the HTML help files as the default automatically. You don't need to do anything!