X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-help.txt;h=f8df109d07240d4146ad37928147100f2d3a6bb2;hb=d951615daa9de25687fc4af34a224f62f8d414e5;hp=faecd6bb907b9622aa0a6a3a9fab2665c867354e;hpb=438d2991eaa17549df67929cd4558d65840c37d7;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index faecd6bb9..f8df109d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ 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 @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ other display programs (see below). + The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable 'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of -these config variables is set, the 'git-web--browse' helper script -(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default. See +these config variables is set, the 'git web--browse' helper script +(called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ 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 +variable; they make 'git help' behave as their corresponding command line option: * "man" corresponds to '-m|--man', @@ -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..path ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~