From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:57:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] Windows(msysgit): Per default, display help as HTML in default browser
Message-ID: <200807022057.47588.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <1214987532-23640-5-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>


On Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> The implementation directly calls the Win32 API to launch the browser.
> Note that the specific directory layout of msysgit is required.

> +#ifdef __MINGW32__
> +	const char* exec_path = git_exec_path();
> +	char *htmlpath = make_native_separator(
> +			   mkpath("%s/../doc/git/html/%s.html"
> +				  , exec_path
> +				  , git_cmd)
> +			 );
> +	if (!file_exists(htmlpath)) {
> +		htmlpath = make_native_separator(
> +			      mkpath("%s/../doc/git/html/git-%s.html"
> +				     , exec_path
> +				     , git_cmd)
> +			   );
> +		if (!file_exists(htmlpath)) {
> +			fprintf(stderr, "Can't find HTML help for '%s'.\n"
> +				, git_cmd);
> +			exit(1);
> +		}
> +	}
> +	printf("Launching default browser to display HTML help ...\n");
> +	ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", 0);
> +#else

Can't we move this part into git-web--browse.sh? It should be a matter of 
calling

	start $htmlpath

(and msys-1.0.dll would convert slashes to backslashes for us).

-- Hannes