documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable

This patch documents the "man.<tool>.path" configuration
variable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Christian Couder 2008-04-25 08:24:41 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -805,6 +805,10 @@ merge.<driver>.recursive::
performing an internal merge between common ancestors.
See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
man.<tool>.path::
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
mergetool.<tool>.path::
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
your tool is not in the PATH.

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@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
If everything fails 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
available in PATH.
Note about git config --global
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