Git Man Viewer Configuration

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 and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1]. man.viewer ~~~~~~~~~~ The `man.viewer` configuration variable will be checked if the 'man' format is chosen. The following values are currently supported: * "man": use the 'man' program as usual, * "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs (this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22), * "konqueror": use 'kfmclient' to open the man page in a new konqueror tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below). Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding `man.<tool>.cmd` configuration entry (see below). Multiple values may be given to the `man.viewer` configuration variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order listed in the configuration file. For example, this configuration: ------------------------------------------------ [man] viewer = konqueror viewer = woman ------------------------------------------------ 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, 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. man.<tool>.cmd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When the man viewer, specified by the `man.viewer` configuration variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding `man.<tool>.cmd` configuration variable will be looked up. If this variable exists then the specified tool will be treated as a custom command and a shell eval will be used to run the command with the man page passed as arguments. Note about konqueror ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When 'konqueror' is specified in the `man.viewer` configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible. For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'man.konqueror.path' is set to something like `A_PATH_TO/konqueror`. That means we will try to launch `A_PATH_TO/kfmclient` instead. If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like the following: ------------------------------------------------ [man] viewer = konq [man "konq"] cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror ------------------------------------------------ Note about git config --global ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note that all 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. GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

The git man viewer can be customized using various configuration variables, including man.viewer, man.<tool>.path, and man.<tool>.cmd, which allow users to specify their preferred man viewer, its path, and a custom command to run it, with options to use tools like konqueror, woman, and emacs.