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Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 24, 2016, 07:47 UTC
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Hi Ralf,
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Ralf Thielow wrote:
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> 2016-08-19 10:32 GMT+02:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> 
> > So how about fixing that? I would suggest to do it this way:
> >
> > - configure help.format = html (for "man", the current code would always
> >   add $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH when testing, not what we want,
> >   and hacking this code *just* for testing is both ugly and unnecessary).
> >
> > - configure help.htmlpath to point to a subdirectory that is created and
> >   populated in the same test script.
> >
> > - configure help.browser to point to a script that is created in the same
> >   script and whose output we can verify, too.
> >
> > The last point actually requires a patch that was recently introduced into
> > Git for Windows [*1*] (and that did not make it upstream yet) which
> > reverts that change whereby web--browse was sidestepped. That sidestepping
> > was well-intentioned but turned out to cause more harm than good.
> >
> 
> So I'll pickup the patch you sent [1] to my series and prepare the test cases
> the way you described to verify that the 'help' command works.
Thanks!

Ciao, Johannes

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  37. 1/3 Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API"Ralf Thielow, Aug 26, 2016
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