Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: > >> Prepend $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH environment variable before >> invoking 'man' from help.c:show_man_page(). > > This commit message is severely lacking. Why would you _ever_ prefer the > installed man pages before invoking "man", which should find them > anyway? Obviously because you want manual pages corresponding to the version of git you are invoking, not any random version of man-pages man may find by default. -- Sergei. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
