Variable: magit-view-git-manual-method

magit-view-git-manual-method is a customizable variable defined in magit-base.el.

Value

info

Documentation

How links to Git documentation are followed from Magit's Info manuals.

info Follow the link to the node in the gitman Info manual
        as usual. Unfortunately that manual is not installed by
        default on some platforms, and when it is then the nodes
        look worse than the actual manpages.

man View the respective man-page using the man package.

woman View the respective man-page using the woman package.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in magit version 2.9.0.

Source Code

;; Defined in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-20260411.1452/magit-base.el
(defcustom magit-view-git-manual-method 'info
  "How links to Git documentation are followed from Magit's Info manuals.

`info'  Follow the link to the node in the `gitman' Info manual
        as usual.  Unfortunately that manual is not installed by
        default on some platforms, and when it is then the nodes
        look worse than the actual manpages.

`man'   View the respective man-page using the `man' package.

`woman' View the respective man-page using the `woman' package."
  :package-version '(magit . "2.9.0")
  :group 'magit-miscellaneous
  :type '(choice (const :tag "View info manual" info)
                 (const :tag "View manpage using `man'" man)
                 (const :tag "View manpage using `woman'" woman)))