Re: [PATCH 1/2] help.c: Add support for htmldir relative to git_exec_path()

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> On Jul 4, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Could you check if there are copy-and-pasted duplicated code you can
> >> factor out before continuing this direction?
> >
> > Note also that Hannes tried very hard to get rid of those ugly "#ifdef
> > __MINGW32__"s by declaring/overriding functions in git-compat-util.h.
> >
> > I think that is such a good practice that we should not stop here.
>
> I'll send three patches that address Junio's and Dscho's comments:
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>   [PATCH 1/3] Move code interpreting path relative to exec-dir to new
> function system_path()
>   [PATCH 2/3] help.c: Add support for htmldir relative to
> git_exec_path()
>   [PATCH 3/3] help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using
> Windows' shell API
>
>
> Hannes,
> the patches I'll send probably conflict with your planned work on
> GIT_EXEC_PATH that has been discussed on the msysgit list.  I think
> you could built on my series and modify system_path().