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Documentation: describe -w/--web option to "git-help".

Also explain that "git instaweb" may use "web.browser" config
variable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Christian Couder 17 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      Documentation/git-help.txt
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      Documentation/git-instaweb.txt

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Documentation/git-help.txt

@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-help - display help information about git @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-help - display help information about git

SYNOPSIS
--------
'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info] [COMMAND]
'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-w|--web] [COMMAND]

DESCRIPTION
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@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ former is internally converted into the latter. @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ 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.

@ -37,6 +36,24 @@ OPTIONS @@ -37,6 +36,24 @@ OPTIONS
Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of
the 'man' program that is used by default.

-w|--web::
Use a web browser to display the HTML manual page, instead of
the 'man' program that is used by default.
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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.
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You can explicitly provide a full path to your prefered 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
is available in PATH.
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Note that the script tries, as much as possible, to display the HTML
page in a new tab on an already opened browser.

Author
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Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and the git-list

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Documentation/git-instaweb.txt

@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ You may specify configuration in your .git/config @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ You may specify configuration in your .git/config

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If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set,
'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined.

Author
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Written by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

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