Re: msysgit, help: teach git help to open html from /doc/git/html/

> I pushed the following patch to 4msysgit.git's mob branch
>
> [ I finally found the mob branch at
> ssh://mob@repo.or.cz/srv/git/git/mingw/4msysgit.git
> which apparently was one git too much for my brain. ]
>
>
> commit a9a42a347894edfbca33e48bed0fcd38ec334a35
>
>      help (msysgit): teach git help to open html from /doc/git/html/
>
>      Html pages will be opened using the default Windows application
>      configured for html. This code path is taken for msysgit (mingw).
>
>      It is assumed that html pages are installed at /doc/git/html.
>      This needs to be ensured by the msysgit superproject to make this
>      patch useful. html pages should be cloned from git.git's main
>      repo. This is the easiest way to get up-to-date documentation,
>      without requiring the complete tool chain to generate them
>      locally.
>
>      If html pages are not yet there, you can use the following
>      commands to get them:
>
>          mkdir -p /doc/git/html
>          cd /doc/git/html/
>          git init
>          git config remote.origin.url git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/
> git/git.git
>          git config remote.origin.fetch refs/heads/html:refs/remotes/
> origin/html
>          git fetch
>          git checkout --track -b html origin/html
>
>      and update the html documentation with
>
>          git pull
>
> The superproject should be setup in /share/GitMe/setup-msysgit.sh to
> fetch the html pages as a submodule. But I don't understanding
> submodules good enough to do so.
>
> If you then type 'git help <command>' Firefox or Explorer or whatever
> you configured as your default html viewer will show you the git help.
> I think this is a good idea for Windows users.
>
>
> Junio,
> are you interested in such patches at this time. The patch doesn't
> interfere with the existing code, but clutters it with ifdefs.
>
>         Steffen
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