Hi Junio,
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jerem...@apple.com> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jerem...@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
?
Ciao,
Johannes
>
> > }
> >
> > strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
>
