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From: vfr@lyx.org
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, peff@peff.net, Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Add the DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT option to Makefile
Date: Wed,  6 Jun 2012 18:51:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339008702-704-1-git-send-email-vfr@lyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120606135353.GD2597@sigill.intra.peff.net>

From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>

This patch advertises the DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT compile option in Makefile. It will also allow to call 'make DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT=info' to specify a different default.

Proposed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
---
 Makefile |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ffbd7a4..b21afed 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ all::
 # the diff algorithm.  It gives a nice speedup if your processor has
 # fast unaligned word loads.  Does NOT work on big-endian systems!
 # Enabled by default on x86_64.
+#
+# Define DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT to "man", "info", "web" or "html"
+# (defaults "man") if you want to have a different default when
+# "git help" is called without a parameter specifying the format.
 
 GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
 	@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1238,6 +1242,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease
 	NO_INET_PTON = YesPlease
 	NO_INET_NTOP = YesPlease
+	DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
 
 	CC = compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl
 	AR = compat/vcbuild/scripts/lib.pl
@@ -1917,6 +1922,10 @@ SHELL_PATH_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH_CQ))
 BASIC_CFLAGS += -DSHELL_PATH='$(SHELL_PATH_CQ_SQ)'
 endif
 
+ifdef DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT
+BASIC_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT='"$(DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT)"'
+endif
+
 ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS)
 ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS)
 
-- 
1.7.9.msysgit.0

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06 12:56 [PATCH] Add the possibility to specify a default help format Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-06-06 13:53 ` Jeff King
2012-06-06 18:51   ` vfr [this message]
2012-06-06 19:06     ` [PATCH] Add the DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT option to Makefile Junio C Hamano
2012-06-06 20:25       ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-06-06 21:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCHv2] Add the possibility to specify a default help format Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-06-06 21:21   ` Junio C Hamano

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