git-help(1)
-======
+===========
NAME
----
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info] [COMMAND]
+'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
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 overriden by other options.
+can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
OPTIONS
-------
-a|--all::
-
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
- option superseeds any other option.
+ option supersedes any other option.
-i|--info::
Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of
the 'man' program that is used by default.
+-m|--man::
+ Use the 'man' program to display the manual page. This may be
+ used to override a value set in the 'help.format'
+ configuration variable.
+
+-w|--web::
+ Use a web browser to display the HTML manual page, instead of
+ the 'man' program that is used by default.
++
+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-help--browse' helper script
+(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default.
++
+You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
+setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
+you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
+'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git-help--browse' assumes the tool
+is available in PATH.
++
+Note that the script tries, as much as possible, to display the HTML
+page in a new tab on an already opened browser.
+
+CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
+-----------------------
+
+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
+line option:
+
+* "man" corresponds to '-m|--man',
+* "info" corresponds to '-i|--info',
+* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web',
+
+The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
+be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
+option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
+section above.
+
+Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
+the '--global' flag, for example like this:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git config --global help.format web
+$ git config --global web.browser firefox
+------------------------------------------------
+
+as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
+See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
+
Author
------
Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list
Documentation
-------------
-Initial documentation was part of the gitlink:git[7] man page.
+Initial documentation was part of the linkgit:git[7] 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 gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite