From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:04:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show html help with git-help --html
Message-ID: <7vr6osn19e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070602015341.GA26520@localhost.myhome.westell.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 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'?