Re: [PATCH (Apple Git) 07/13] HTML documentation is not provided with Apple's git. Make the error message more on point.

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@apple.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@apple.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  builtin/help.c | 2 +-
> >> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
> >> > index 7739a5c155..e001b6157c 100644
> >> > --- a/builtin/help.c
> >> > +++ b/builtin/help.c
> >> > @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
> >> >  	if (!strstr(html_path, "://")) {
> >> >  		if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
> >> >  		    || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> >> > -			die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
> >> > +			die("HTML documentation is not provided by this distribution of git.");
> >> 
> >> Mentioning HTML in the message may be a good idea, but I feel that
> >> "distribution of git" is not something we should say in the source
> >> for those who are building from the source.  Distributors are free
> >> to munge before they generate their binary distribution, of course
> >> ;-).
> >
> > So maybe something like
> >
> > #ifdef MISSING_HTML_MESSAGE
> > 			die(_(MISSING_HTML_MESSAGE));
> > #else
> > 			die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
> > #endif
> >
> > ?
> 
> No, distributors can fork and build from patched source.  What I
> meant was along these lines:
> 
>     die(_("HTML documentation not installed in '%s'."), html_path));
>     die(_("The installer chose to omit HTML docs from '%s''.", html_path));