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Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-help: add -w|--web option to display html man page in a browser.

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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Dec 8, 2007, 04:00 UTC
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<200712080500.06857.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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Le vendredi 7 décembre 2007, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > ...
> >
> >>> > +init_browser_path() {
> >>> > +	browser_path=`git config browser.$1.path`
> >>> > +	test -z "$browser_path" && browser_path=$1
> >>> > +}
> >>>
> >>> Please do not contaminate the config file with something the user can
> >>> easily use a lot more standardized way (iow $PATH) to configure to
> >>> his taste.
> >>>
> >>> I'd suggest dropping this bit.
>
> Well, I changed my mind.  It is a bit funny to have both firefox and
> iceweasel as "valid-tool", but if we consider $browser to define the
> external interface and $browser_path to define the implementation, it
> sort of makes sense to have that configuration.  browser_path could be
> iceweasel for browser firefox.
>
> I'll squash the patch to update the one from the last round (as the last
> two patches are not yet accepted in 'next' yet), remove the html
> documentation path fallback, but will leave this part in.
Thanks.
> browser.*.path and web.browser configuration need to be documented, if
> not already, though.
Did you see this patch:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67101
Christian.
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  3. Christian CouderDec 7, 2007
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