From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:50:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git help error
Message-ID: <863auiw86m.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20071204194754.GB30780@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Luciano Rocha <strange@nsk.no-ip.org> writes:

> 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).

-- 
David Kastrup