Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the b…

…eginning Talking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and it may work on non unix like platforms. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
 Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
-pages.  For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command.  For example, for the command
+"git clone <repo>", you can either use:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ man git-clone
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+or:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git help clone
+------------------------------------------------
+
+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
+
 See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
 without any explanation.