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builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man

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In some situations it is useful to be able to switch viewers via the
environment, e.g. in Emacs shell buffers.  So check the GIT_MAN_VIEWER
environment variable and try it before falling back to "man".

Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Romain Francoise
2008-08-29 17:00:43 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 445cac18c0
commit 5059a42780
2 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -361,12 +361,15 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
{
struct man_viewer_list *viewer;
const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
const char *fallback = getenv("GIT_MAN_VIEWER");
setup_man_path();
for (viewer = man_viewer_list; viewer; viewer = viewer->next)
{
exec_viewer(viewer->name, page); /* will return when unable */
}
if (fallback)
exec_viewer(fallback, page);
exec_viewer("man", page);
die("no man viewer handled the request");
}