How do I get git manual entries?

Question

I downloaded Git source and installed it in a non-standard path. All the Git options have a -h option but the documentation listed there is very terse and many options are missing. I'd like the full documentation but am unable to find it. When I run git help log or git log --help I get the following error:

No manual entry for git-log

I've tried adding every path imaginable to PATH and MANPATH but it does no good, I still get these pesky errors. How can I get git <option> --help to work?

Answer 1

Git's manpages are (for some reason) a completely separate download from the actual source code, and are thus not installed when compiling and installing from source.

You can find the manpages for each release in git-core's downloads list.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu, you can install manual pages with the following command:

sudo apt-get install git-man