Installing Git Manpages on Snow Leopard

When Using Git do you get this frustration:

$ git help pull
No manual entry for git-pull

If so, there is an easy fix First, note the git version you are using

$ git --version
git version 1.6.4.2

Then download the appropriate tarball from kernel.org

curl -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-{YOUR VERSION}.tar.bz2

Then determine your manpath for /usr/local (here it is /usr/local/share/man, yours may be different)

$ cat /etc/manpaths
/usr/share/man
/usr/local/share/man

Lastly, untar the files into the man directory

sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/share/man -f git-manpages-1.6.4.2.tar.bz2

Now you should get manpages when you issue something like git help merge

wiffu