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Re: git help broken

From
Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date
Jul 30, 2008, 23:45 UTC
Message-ID
<88026755-3022-43A5-921C-D11244E1F723@sb.org>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LSU.1.00.0807310141060.3486@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Jul 30, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> `git help diff` no longer finds the git-diff manpage (as of tip of  
>> next
>> branch). I haven't tested, but I suspect
>> 940208a771066229bc6a486f6a058e332b71cfe4 is responsible.
>
> Just to save everybody else and her dog the trouble: that commit's  
> oneline
> is "builtin-help: make some internal functions available to other
> builtins".
>
> And from the patch, it is pretty obvious that it does not come close  
> to
> the "man" code path.

I suspected it because it was the only non-merge commit since my last pull that mentioned "help" in the message. Regardless, Miklos has posted a patch that works.

-Kevin Ballard
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Previous: Christian Couder
Message 13 of 13 in “git help broken”
  1. Kevin BallardJul 30, 2008
  2. builtin-help: always load_command_list() in cmd_help()Miklos Vajna, Jul 30, 2008
  3. Kevin BallardJul 30, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2008
  6. Miklos VajnaJul 31, 2008
  7. Christian CouderAug 1, 2008
  8. Miklos VajnaAug 1, 2008
  9. Builtin git-help.Miklos Vajna, Aug 2, 2008
  10. Christian CouderAug 21, 2008
  11. Fix 'git help help'Miklos Vajna, Aug 21, 2008
  12. Christian CouderAug 22, 2008
  13. Kevin BallardJul 30, 2008

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