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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2009-09-14 02:30:23 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4693.
  • Revision ID: mbp@sourcefrog.net-20090914023023-ros0f3ndo04j3bww
https://launchpad.net/bugs/429151
Clearer docs about bzr help.  (Thanks to Naoki)

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Getting help
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Bazaar comes with a built-in on-line help system. To see the list of topics,
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the command is::
 
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Bazaar comes with a built-in on-line help system, accessed through::
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  bzr help
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To see the list of commands, the command is::
 
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You can ask for help on a command, or on non-command topics.  To see a
 
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list of available help of each kind, use either::
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  bzr help commands
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To get help on topic xxx or command xxx, the command is::
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  bzr help xxx
 
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  bzr help topics
 
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For help on a particular command, use either of these forms::
 
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  bzr help status
 
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  bzr status --help
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If you wish to search the help or read it as a larger document, the
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information is also available in the Bazaar User Reference.