From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:21:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Requirements for integrating a new git subcommand
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1aGJJMx74RXGTy4hO=Wdv3dDuX4P3UEEGgYvcA_j=M1A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121122221107.GA16069@thyrsus.com>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> [Lots of helpful stuff ended by]
>> > 4. How does "git help" work?  That is, how is a subcommand expected
>> > to know when it is being called to export its help text?
>>
>> IIRC "git help foo" runs "man git-foo".
>
> OK, that makes sense.

"git help" can also launch a browser to display the HTML version of
the man page.
It is looking for man pages and HTML docs in the paths given by "git
--man-path" and "git --html-path".

Cheers,
Christian.