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Proposal about --help options and man calls

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Jul 18, 2007, 21:50 UTC
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Frequently, git somecommand --help will call the man command to display help pages. I think that when it does so, it should pass the value of the GIT_PAGER variable copied into the PAGER variable: the paging happens on behalf of git here.

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