Junio C Hamano wrote: > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The documentation says, "use the man program as usual". "As usual" > > implies the way the user would invoke it. > > I guess what the documentation says matches what end users expect (I > as an end user certainly do expect that "git help -m foo" is running > the familiar "man" command on something that is related to "foo"). Do you also expect that `git diff a b` runs something similar to `diff a b`? > So while making the "less" customization more discoverable and > easily accessible would be a win for users, I have to agree that is > out of scope of this project's mission. How is enabling a configuration already present in `man` out of scope, but running an *ENTIRELY* different program--such as konqueror or woman--to view man pages is not? git help --man git Doesn't even necessarily run man *already*. -- Felipe Contreras
