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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-09-02 17:45:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-09-02 17:45:41 -0700 |
| commit | f3db366770ffc67196ee13cdcb65c6bfb45821f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 13521d9696bdefafc7266e8d57d050c061151cc4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1c12b38601b5b4da61a2e90540a8de56261d93af (diff) | |
| parent | 5059a427804f9fefaf75dd1aa92cb620ce9219c7 (diff) | |
| download | git-f3db366770ffc67196ee13cdcb65c6bfb45821f6.tar.gz git-f3db366770ffc67196ee13cdcb65c6bfb45821f6.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'rf/man-env'
* rf/man-env:
builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 f414583fc..d9b9c34b3 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |