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| author |  Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2008-04-25 08:24:58 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-04-26 14:33:56 -0700 |
| commit | a26a06afed783cb7cf7207c1bcb2d1781d623d1e (patch) | |
| tree | c8779910127dad15ee8842f2387261a5b630565e /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable (diff) | |
| download | tgif-a26a06afed783cb7cf7207c1bcb2d1781d623d1e.tar.xz | |
help: use "man.<tool>.cmd" as custom man viewer command
Currently "git help -m GITCMD" is restricted to a set of man viewers
defined at compile time. You can subvert the "man.<tool>.path" to
force "git help -m" to use a different man, viewer, but if you have a
man viewer whose invocation syntax does not match one of the current
tools then you would have to write a wrapper script for it.
This patch adds a git config variable "man.<tool>.cmd" which allows a
more flexible man viewer choice.
If you run "git help -m GITCMD" with the "man.viewer" config variable
set to an unrecognized tool then it will query the "man.<tool>.cmd"
config variable. If this variable exists, then the specified tool will
be treated as a custom man viewer and it will be run in a shell with
the man page name of the GITCMD added as extra parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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