From: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
Joseph Musser <me@jnm2.com>, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:41:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0XMOLTc5zzjXwnpDwhs-coP9BVD659CpYEJYp_v4789M2CpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608190954461.4924@virtualbox>
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!
[1]
http://public-inbox.org/git/03ae6a9d47cb95a54960bfdc90c5392f890ff1e3.1471595956.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-12 2:00 `git stash --help` tries to pull up nonexistent file gitstack.html Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 16:03 ` Lars Schneider
2016-08-12 16:15 ` Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 18:14 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-12 20:10 ` [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-12 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13 0:08 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-13 15:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 5:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-15 11:25 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 20:40 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 10:06 ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:20 ` [PATCH v3] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 16:33 ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:39 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 17:57 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:34 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 21:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Philip Oakley
2016-08-19 8:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 15:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:41 ` Ralf Thielow [this message]
2016-08-24 7:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 8:39 ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2016-08-23 17:37 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API" Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] help: introduce option --exclude-guides Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:03 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:00 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:39 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
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