documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable

diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index be2ae53b90610d6c89fdf281634d06609562101b..4c6cb2194cc77123e15ad73eeead0152e075d5d6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
 
 If everything fails the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
 
+man.<tool>.path
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
+setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you
+can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
+'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is
+available in PATH.
+
 Note about git config --global
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