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Re: [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 16, 2005, 07:29 UTC
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> The way this made it into the actual tree was to call /usr/bin/man, but 
> still using execlp().  This is clearly bogus.  There *ARE* good reasons 
> to use PATH resolutions for this, since man is one of the interactive 
> commands the user may want to wrapper.

Oh, that was my call, so please do not blame Andreas. I just sent out a proposed patch to address all the points discussed on the list for the last several hours.

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Message 6 of 9 in “git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two”
  1. 3/3 git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take twoAndreas Ericsson, Nov 16, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinNov 16, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 16, 2005
  4. git wrapper: basic fixes.Junio C Hamano, Nov 16, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 16, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2005
  7. H. Peter AnvinNov 16, 2005
  8. Andreas EricssonNov 16, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinNov 16, 2005

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