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.
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.
+
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
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