Getting Git man pages on OS X
For some reason the OS X install of Git doesn’t include the manpages. Here is how I installed them.
First off, find the appropriate manpath.
greg@codemine:~ %> cat /etc/manpaths
/usr/share/man
/usr/local/share/man/usr/local/share/man looks good…
greg@codemine:~ %> VER=`git --version | awk '{print $3}'`
greg@codemine:~ %> curl -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-$VER.tar.bz2
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 242k 100 242k 0 0 92051 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 99k
greg@codemine:~ %> sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/share/man -f git-manpages-$VER.tar.bz2
Password:
x ./
x ./man1/
x ./man1/git-add.1
[snip]
x ./man7/gitworkflows.7
greg@codemine:~ %> rm git-manpages-$VER.tar.bz2
greg@codemine:~ %>“man git-add” should now work fine.
