Junio C Hamano wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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*. > > As an end-user, I do not expect Git to run konqueror or woman with > its own tweaks when it does so. And I do not see a reason why "man" > should be any different. You skipped the first question: Do you also expect that `git diff a b` runs something similar to `diff a b`? -- Felipe Contreras