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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 59 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl | 6 |
3 files changed, 58 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ed2cb832b9..0865f4e01a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -757,6 +757,10 @@ log.showroot:: Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. +man.viewer:: + Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the + 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. + merge.summary:: Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created merge commit messages. False by default. diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 0926dc12ba..be2ae53b90 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -33,17 +33,21 @@ OPTIONS option supersedes any other option. -i|--info:: - Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of - the 'man' program that is used by default. + Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The + 'info' program will be used for that purpose. -m|--man:: - Use the 'man' program to display the manual page. This may be - used to override a value set in the 'help.format' - configuration variable. + Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This + option may be used to override a value set in the + 'help.format' configuration variable. ++ +By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page, +but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose +other display programs (see below). -w|--web:: - Use a web browser to display the HTML manual page, instead of - the 'man' program that is used by default. + Display manual page for the command in the 'web' (HTML) + format. A web browser will be used for that purpose. + The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable 'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of @@ -54,6 +58,9 @@ linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES ----------------------- +help.format +~~~~~~~~~~~ + If no command line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this variable; they make 'git-help' behave as their corresponding command @@ -61,15 +68,47 @@ line option: * "man" corresponds to '-m|--man', * "info" corresponds to '-i|--info', -* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web', +* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web'. + +help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS section above and linkgit:git-web--browse[1]. -Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using -the '--global' flag, for example like this: +man.viewer +~~~~~~~~~~ + +The 'man.viewer' config variable will be checked if the 'man' format +is chosen. Only the following values are currently supported: + +* "man": use the 'man' program as usual, +* "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs +(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22), +* "konqueror": use a man KIO slave in konqueror. + +Multiple values may be given to this configuration variable. Their +corresponding programs will be tried in the order listed in the +configuration file. + +For example, this configuration: + + [man] + viewer = konqueror + viewer = woman + +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. + +Note about git config --global +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set +using the '--global' flag, for example like this: ------------------------------------------------ $ git config --global help.format web diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl index fe3cd72d6f..4065a3a27a 100644 --- a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl +++ b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -<!-- callout.xsl: converts asciidoc callouts to man page format --> +<!-- Based on callouts.xsl. Fixes man page callouts for DocBook 1.72 XSL --> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> + +<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/> +<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/> + <xsl:template match="co"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('▓fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')▓fR')"/> </xsl:template> |