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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-help.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index f414583fc4..d9b9c34b3a 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/builtin-help.c b/builtin-help.c index 721038e4f5..64207cbfe9 100644 --- a/builtin-help.c +++ b/builtin-help.c @@ -361,12 +361,15 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd) { struct man_viewer_list *viewer; const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd); + const char *fallback = getenv("GIT_MAN_VIEWER"); setup_man_path(); for (viewer = man_viewer_list; viewer; viewer = viewer->next) { exec_viewer(viewer->name, page); /* will return when unable */ } + if (fallback) + exec_viewer(fallback, page); exec_viewer("man", page); die("no man viewer handled the request"); } |