Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-web--browse: don't add start as candidate on Ubuntu

> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
> ---
>
> Hi *,
>
> When upgrading to v1.6.1, I noticed that the html help had stopped
> working on Linux (Ububtu), viz:
>
>     $ git help -w tag
>     start: Need to be root
>
> So, after squinting at git-web--browse.sh, I tried a few things:
>
>     $ ls /bin/start
>     ls: /bin/start: No such file or directory
>     $ test -n /bin/start; echo $?
>     0
>     $ which start
>     /sbin/start
>     $ start fred
>     start: Need to be root
>     $ ls -l /sbin/start
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-06-24 19:45 /sbin/start -> initctl*
>
> So, it would seem that /sbin/start is part of upstart, which would
> explain the "Need to be root" ;-)
>
>     $ test -x /bin/start; echo $?
>     1
>     $
>
> So, the patch below fixes the issue for me, but as I don't have MinGW
> installed, I can't test this fix works there.
>
> Does anybody else see this issue and can someone test the patch?