Closed yozachar closed 1 year ago
Git does not use your shell to spawn the man
process, so it is unaware of your aliases. You need to tell git by following the explanation from the link you provided. If setting the configuration does not work, you could try setting the environment variable GIT_MAN_VIEWER=tldr
before running git, probably in your shell config. Does this help?
No, that does not seem to work either:
$ export GIT_MAN_VIEWER=tldr
$ echo $GIT_MAN_VIEWER
tldr
$ git log --help
warning: 'tldr': unknown man viewer.
warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory
fatal: no man viewer handled the request
If the command isn't supported by git out of the box, you need to set it up in your config using man.tdr.cmd
:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-help#_man_viewer
However, tealdeer is not a generic man viewer, so I'm not sure if this is the best idea 🙂 However, if it works for you, that's great.
I'll close this issue for now since it's not a feature request, but feel free to add further comments.
That works,
$ git config --global man.viewer tldr
$ git config --global man.tldr.cmd tldr
$ git log --help
Show a history of commits.
More information: <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log>.
Show the sequence of commits starting from the current one, in reverse chronological order of the Git repository in the current working directory:
git log
Show the history of a particular file or directory, including differences:
git log -p path/to/file_or_directory
Show an overview of which file(s) changed in each commit:
git log --stat
Show a graph of commits in the current branch using only the first line of each commit message:
git log --oneline --graph
Show a graph of all commits, tags and branches in the entire repo:
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
Show only commits whose messages include a given string (case-insensitively):
git log -i --grep search_string
Show the last N commits from a certain author:
git log -n number --author=author
Show commits between two dates (yyyy-mm-dd):
git log --before="2017-01-29" --after="2017-01-17"
Thanks!
How do I tell
git
to usetldr
?Arch man pages say https://man.archlinux.org/man/git-help.1.en#man.viewer, but I'm unable to do the configuration with success.