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> Generally you can scroll through them with up/down arrow and pgup/down.

Or even your scroll wheel! :D

> Normally the man page name is the same as the command, so I’m not sure how anyone would discover the one for gittutorial.

At the bottom of every man page there is a SEE ALSO section:

    SEE ALSO
        gittutorial(7), gittutorial-2(7), giteveryday(7), gitcvs-migration(7), gitglossary(7), gitcore-tutorial(7), gitcli(7), The Git User’s Manual[1], gitworkflows(7)
This is as close to clickable links as man gets; if you want actual links you could run “info git” instead. There is also occasionally a NOTES section:

    NOTES
        1. Git User’s Manual
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/user-manual.html

        2. Trace2 documentation
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/technical/api-trace2.html

        3. Git concepts chapter of the user-manual
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/user-manual.html#git-concepts

        4. howto
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/howto-index.html

        5. Git API documentation
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/technical/api-index.html
It also happens to mention gittutorial(7) and giteveryday(7) in the second sentence of the description, way back at the top of the man page. These are above the fold even in an 80×24 terminal.


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