Re: git help error

From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <874pey9uow.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wa25oqc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

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> "Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> git help gives me the below error.
>>
>> [master@git]$ git help add
>> No manual entry for git-add
>> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
>> [master@git]$
>>
>> I have the git binaries installed via --prefix
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/
>> and to see the man page i have to say
>>
>> man -M /home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/share/man/
>>
>> I guess git-help need to take care of the prefix.
>
> When you run "man" from the command line, can you say
>
>      $ man git-add
>
> and make it work?  If it fails the same way, then what you are missing
> is MANPATH environment variable, isn't it?

I think what the OP asked for makes sense. git-help should better find corresponding version of manual pages automatically. This way, if one invokes different versions of git-help, he will get corresponding version of help text.

-- 
Sergei.