From: Christian Couder Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:03:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve git-help--browse browser support under OS X Message-ID: <200802110603.51515.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> In-Reply-To: <76718490802101813n5b2121fcp25b4c65eb32ab14e@mail.gmail.com> Le lundi 11 février 2008, Jay Soffian a écrit : > On Feb 10, 2008 8:45 AM, Christian Couder wrote: > > I wonder if "open" works on OS X outside the OS X GUI environment. (And > > do people use OS X outside the OS X GUI environment ?) > > "open" simulates double-clicking on a document icon, so, no it does > not make sense to use it unless the GUI is active. What I was > referring to though is that you can't ssh into another OS X host and > use open, even if there is a user logged into the GUI on that host, > for obvious security reasons. Ok, thanks for this information. > > In the git "next" branch, "git-help--browse" has been > > renamed "git-web--browse". And the original patch is > > against "git-web--browse" except in the title where it is > > about "git-help--browse". > > Yeah, my typo in the title. > > > Anyway now in "next", "git-web--browse" is used by both "git help" and > > "git instaweb", so the documentation of both commands need an update. > > The git instaweb documentation update should be in a separate patch. > Though I think maybe the right way to handle this is add a new doc for > git-web--browse and then have the instaweb and help docs refer to > that, no? > > BTW, what is the reason for the two-dashes in git-web--browse's name? The two-dashes means that it's an helper script, and this means that it may not have it's own documentation. Anyway maybe I will create a documentation for it and move common information from Documentation/git-help.txt and Documentation/git-instaweb.txt into it. Thanks, Christian.