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 or configuration variables.
+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.
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-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 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-browse-help' script (called by
-'git-help') will pick a suitable default.
+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 prefered browser by
+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-browse-help' assumes the tool
+'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
* "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 choosen (either by command line
+be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
section above.