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| author |  Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2008-04-25 08:24:41 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-04-26 14:33:56 -0700 |
| commit | 7e8114c0683e6ecfd400a5a798ae7e2fc91249fb (patch) | |
| tree | d4f7974afa13eb74a2a9c0cf114756d95959ae94 | |
| parent | help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var (diff) | |
| download | tgif-7e8114c0683e6ecfd400a5a798ae7e2fc91249fb.tar.xz | |
documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable
This patch documents the "man.<tool>.path" configuration
variable.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 9 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7a24f6e819..138ba9ad8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -805,6 +805,10 @@ merge.<driver>.recursive:: performing an internal merge between common ancestors. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. +man.<tool>.path:: + Override the path for the given tool that may be used to + display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. + mergetool.<tool>.path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH. diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index be2ae53b90..4c6cb2194c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried. If everything fails the 'man' program will be tried anyway. +man.<tool>.path +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by +setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you +can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting +'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is +available in PATH. + Note about git config --global ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |