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Re: [PATCH] Show html help with git-help --html

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2007, 22:04 UTC
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> This patch was inspired by ClearCase command 'ct man' which
> opens an html help file on Windows. I at first attempted to
> implement it for MinGW port only but found it so useful that I
> wanted to have it even in Linux.
>
> A new option '--help' is added to git. When git-help is called
> with --help, it will try to open html files located at
> $(sharedir)/html using xdg-open. HTML files are not installed
> by default so users have to install them manually or have their
> distributors to do that.
Do you mean a new option '--html'?
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