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| author |  Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | 2008-08-29 17:00:43 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-29 21:46:33 -0700 |
| commit | 5059a427804f9fefaf75dd1aa92cb620ce9219c7 (patch) | |
| tree | b1719659fd78857880c0b2d4f1a4824c20b15084 /Documentation/git-help.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'maint' (diff) | |
| download | tgif-5059a427804f9fefaf75dd1aa92cb620ce9219c7.tar.xz | |
builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man
In some situations it is useful to be able to switch viewers via the
environment, e.g. in Emacs shell buffers. So check the GIT_MAN_VIEWER
environment variable and try it before falling back to "man".
Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-help.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index f414583fc4..d9b9c34b3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ For example, this configuration: will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example if DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried. -If everything fails the 'man' program will be tried anyway. +If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified +in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be tried. If that +fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway. man.<tool>.path ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |