Hi, On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > > On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > > > > > > git-help--browse > > > > > > > > AFAICT we need it, and probably need to adjust it to msysGit > > > > (although that might not be necessary; I have no time to look into > > > > it). > > > > > > Do you mean it is needed for "git help"? I don't think so. We > > > launch the HTML browser directly using the Windows API and do not > > > support man. > > > > Maybe we should consolidate that so that "man" _could_ be launched, > > We would need to add the command "man" to msysgit and the installer; and > also checkout Junio's man branch somewhere and add it to the installer, > too. What I meant was: if the user _asks_ for "man", it is the _user's_ obligation to provide a working "man" and "man pages". > > but the default is to do HTML help via git-help--browse? > > I'm against this. The current solution directly uses a C-API to tell > Windows to display the HTML page. Let's keep it this way. > git-help--browse is yet another shell script; but we want to get rid of > the shell scripts. Hmm. I want to get rid of shell scripts, too, but rather not deviate from git.git in that... I'll think about it. Ciao, Dscho
