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

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