From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] Windows(msysgit): Per default, display help as HTML in default browser
Message-ID: <394A4A6F-3D31-4E38-A312-B49DE54FBBDD@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <200807022057.47588.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>


On Jul 2, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> 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).

I try to avoid the shell as much as possible on Windows.

How about the two following patches:

  [PATCH 1/2] help.c: Add support for htmldir relative to  
git_exec_path()
  [PATCH 2/2] help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using  
Win32 API

I'll send them as replies to this mail.

	Steffen