Oh, I have another question or two if you have a spare moment.
Have you ever used the SEE ALSO section in the git man pages to find related information? Could you have missed the links to non–commands merely because you already knew some git commands, so you never ran “git help” without one and thus you never saw the links to the tutorial? Or is there some other cause?
Incidentally, info is a different way to read documentation, one incorporating hyperlinks and a much more book–like organizational system of chapters, sections, etc. It’s a better way to document really large programs like Emacs. It’s available on most OSes, except apparently yours, and like man it allows applications to install their own documentation. It can also read man pages; it doesn’t change them very much (they don’t have chapters, for example), but it does turn references to other man pages into actual links.
I'm not sure if you're counting "git help" as being man pages. I use "git help", but never had much use for "man"-anything. The "git help" I get already has hyperlinks, as it's literally html documents opened in a browser. Some of the documents have a "see also" section at the end. I rarely get that far though, as I tend to read just as far as I need to solve the problem at hand.
Have you ever used the SEE ALSO section in the git man pages to find related information? Could you have missed the links to non–commands merely because you already knew some git commands, so you never ran “git help” without one and thus you never saw the links to the tutorial? Or is there some other cause?
Incidentally, info is a different way to read documentation, one incorporating hyperlinks and a much more book–like organizational system of chapters, sections, etc. It’s a better way to document really large programs like Emacs. It’s available on most OSes, except apparently yours, and like man it allows applications to install their own documentation. It can also read man pages; it doesn’t change them very much (they don’t have chapters, for example), but it does turn references to other man pages into actual links.