git help in Windows command prompt

Question

The git help command on Windows (msysgit distribution) spawns web browser each time I run it. I tried git help -m which reports \"No

Answer 1

Update for Git 2.x (June 2017, Git 2.13.1)

You still don't have man:

> git -c help.format=man help add
warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory
fatal: no man viewer handled the request

Same for git --help.
git -h does not print the man page, only the short usage section (nothing to do with man)

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No, even though an alternative, based on a 'cat' of the htlp txt files, is suggested in "how do I get git to show command-line help in windows?".

There man..cmd config introduced in 2008, allows to set a custom command, but msys shell isn't shipped with man.exe.