From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Requirements for integrating a new git subcommand
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:21:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1aGJJMx74RXGTy4hO=Wdv3dDuX4P3UEEGgYvcA_j=M1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121122221107.GA16069@thyrsus.com>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> [Lots of helpful stuff ended by]
>> > 4. How does "git help" work? That is, how is a subcommand expected
>> > to know when it is being called to export its help text?
>>
>> IIRC "git help foo" runs "man git-foo".
>
> OK, that makes sense.
"git help" can also launch a browser to display the HTML version of
the man page.
It is looking for man pages and HTML docs in the paths given by "git
--man-path" and "git --html-path".
Cheers,
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-22 5:30 Requirements for integrating a new git subcommand Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-22 19:17 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-11-22 22:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-23 9:13 ` Michael J Gruber
2012-11-23 15:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-23 20:21 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2012-11-23 16:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-23 9:27 ` Peter Krefting
2012-11-23 15:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 11:01 ` Peter Krefting
2012-11-26 2:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-26 4:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
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