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
+
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
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',
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
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