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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: config: add "browser.<tool>.path".
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:07:56 +0100
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Le lundi 28 janvier 2008, Junio C Hamano a =E9crit :
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> >
> > +browser.<tool>.path::
> > +	Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
> > +	browse help. See linkgit:git-help[1].
> > +
>
> Thanks.
>
> I wonder if we want to stress the fact that this is about
> rendering HTML version of the manual.  IOW, the <tool>.path
> is about the path the chosen HTML renderer program is at, and
> not consulted at all unless "git help -w help" is run.
>
> Also, do we want to list the repertoire of <tool>?  Unlike
> <name> in "remote.<name>.url" and "branch.<name>.remote", this
> is not something the end user can arbitrarily name.
>
> Incidentally, I notice that git-help manual page does not list
> what browsers are supported (except that it hints that firefox
> is usable by having an example "browser.firefox.path"), even
> though it tells how the browser is picked via "*.browser".

It should be fixed in the following patch series.

Thanks,
Christian.