Merge branch 'bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix' into bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index bfbba9e235495b0a7e31b4d3ed558bef105ad02d..d9b9c34b3a60f09bea4f9e53b5127f33f356e042 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -23,20 +23,23 @@ If a git command is named, a manual page for that command is brought
 up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this
 can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
 
-Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the
+Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the
 former is internally converted into the latter.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
--a|--all::
+-a::
+--all::
        Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
        option supersedes any other option.
 
--i|--info::
+-i::
+--info::
        Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The
        'info' program will be used for that purpose.
 
--m|--man::
+-m::
+--man::
        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.
@@ -45,7 +48,8 @@ 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::
+-w::
+--web::
        Display manual page for the command in the 'web' (HTML)
        format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
 +
@@ -108,7 +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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ man.<tool>.path
 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
 setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you
 can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
-'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is
+'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git-help' assumes the tool is
 available in PATH.
 
 man.<tool>.cmd
@@ -172,10 +178,10 @@ Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list
 
 Documentation
 -------------
-Initial documentation was part of the linkgit:git[7] man page.
+Initial documentation was part of the linkgit:git[1] man page.
 Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> extracted and rewrote it a
 little. Maintenance is done by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite