Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] Allow help.htmlpath to be a URL prefix

From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2012, 23:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20120628233830.GA2765@arachsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcib3zam.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Sounds sensible and looks reasonable.  Thanks.

Great! Glad they were of interest.

> I do not think [PATCH 3/3] is a positive change at all, though.

Yes, I think my aversion for being thrown into the full manual with git foo --help is quite unusual, so this one's probably better left as one of my idiosyncratic local patches.

The reason I thought there was a chance this could be of wider interest is that, on a machine without man pages,

  $ git show --help
  warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory
  fatal: no man viewer handled the request

is a bit unfriendly when git actually has enough internal help to be able to offer

  $ git show -h    
  usage: git log [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]
     or: git show [options] <object>...

...but only if you know that -h exists and is not a synonym for --help.

Cheers,

Chris.