builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man

[git.git] / Documentation / git-help.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index f414583fc48e85e4785fbf5f9431bb81a96ccd9d..d9b9c34b3a60f09bea4f9e53b5127f33f356e042 100644 (file)
--- 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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~