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Re: git help error

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Dec 4, 2007, 19:50 UTC
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Luciano Rocha <strange@nsk.no-ip.org> writes:
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> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:40:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Having said that, I do not mind accepting a patch that prepends the
>> nonlocal path to MANPATH in help.c::show_man_page().
>
> Actually, current man utilities locate the manual page by looking where
> the executable is, if MANPATH isn't defined (tested in Linux and
> Darwin).
>
> So, "unset MANPATH; man git-add" should be sufficient.

That only works for paths registered in /etc/manpath.config (or an equivalent config file depending on system/distribution).

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David Kastrup
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  3. Sergei OrganovDec 4, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2007
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  6. David KastrupDec 4, 2007
  7. Luciano RochaDec 4, 2007
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