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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-09-23 13:44:48 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-09-23 13:44:48 -0700
commitbd42622e5f3ea4a5b1f5fd69174bc7914d00ea3e (patch)
tree0596aa9f814a7c4d87aa3d56e5349b17391fd491 /builtin
parentMerge branch 'cb/unix-sockets-with-windows' (diff)
parenthelp: make sure local html page exists before calling external processes (diff)
downloadtgif-bd42622e5f3ea4a5b1f5fd69174bc7914d00ea3e.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ma/help-w-check-for-requested-page'
The error in "git help no-such-git-command" is handled better. * ma/help-w-check-for-requested-page: help: make sure local html page exists before calling external processes
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/help.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index b7eec06c3d..7731659765 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -467,11 +467,14 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
if (!html_path)
html_path = to_free = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
- /* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
+ /*
+ * Check that the page we're looking for exists.
+ */
if (!strstr(html_path, "://")) {
- if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
+ if (stat(mkpath("%s/%s.html", html_path, page), &st)
|| !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
- die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
+ die("'%s/%s.html': documentation file not found.",
+ html_path, page);
}
strbuf_init(page_path, 0);