What is Git Help?

Git Help is used when you don’t remember some git commands or their options.

How to use Git Help

• git help: This lists some basic, popular Git commands.

• git [command] -help: This is used to find available options for a command.

• git help --all: This brings a list of all possible commands in Git.

• git help -g: This is lists out some concepts in Git along with their meanings.

Example

We will use the git [command] -help on a popular command, the push command.

git push -help

Running this git command will list out all the available options that are connected with the push command. Below is the result of what to expect when you run this command:

What about git help -help?

This command looks funny right? This is used when you want to find available options connected with the help command. And when it is run, you get the following: