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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:16:06 +0300
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712062107520.21625@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu\, 6 Dec 2007 21\:09\:05 +0100 \(CET\)")
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.