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Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
git help nosuchcommand
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
An error message: "No manual entry for git-nosuchcommand"
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
An error message: "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand"
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
The hyphen.
If "nosuchcommand" were a git command, the man page would be
readable by typing "man git-nosuchcommand". The error message
should reflect that. (The error message is actually produced
by the "man" command.)
Anything else you want to add:
Proposed patch (works on my system):
```
commit 148f2e07a7dbdbe72fa0bd4340b76cba12a19a24 (HEAD -> fix-help-bug)
Author: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2025-04-17 15:35:44 -0700
Fix "git help" message for nonexistent subcommand
diff --git builtin/help.c builtin/help.c
index c257079ceb..792549864f 100644
--- builtin/help.c
+++ builtin/help.c
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *git_cmd)
else if (!strcmp("scalar", git_cmd))
return xstrdup(git_cmd);
else
- return xstrfmt("git%s", git_cmd);
+ return xstrfmt("git-%s", git_cmd);
}
static void setup_man_path(void)
```
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.49.0
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 683c54c999c301c2cd6f715c411407c413b1d84e
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
libcurl: 8.5.0
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024
zlib: 1.3
uname: Linux 6.11.0-24-generic #24~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Tue Mar 25 20:14:34 UTC 2 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 13.3
libc info: glibc: 2.39
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /o/bin/bash
[Enabled Hooks]
