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diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index f414583fc4..d9b9c34b3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ For example, this configuration: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |