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2013-05-08help: add help_unknown_ref()Libravatar Vikrant Varma1-0/+50
When the user gives an unknown string to a command that expects to get a ref, we could be more helpful than just saying "that's not a ref" and die. Add helper function help_unknown_ref() to take care of displaying an error message along with a list of suggested refs the user might have meant. An interaction with "git merge" might go like this: $ git merge foo merge: foo - not something we can merge Did you mean one of these? origin/foo upstream/foo Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-16help.c: add a compatibility comment to cmd_version()Libravatar David Aguilar1-0/+4
External projects have been known to parse the output of "git version". Help prevent future authors from changing its format by adding a comment to its implementation. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-18help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
This header not only declares but also defines the contents of the array that holds the list of command names and help text. Do not include it in multiple places to waste text space. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-25help.c::exclude_cmds(): plug a leakLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
Command name removed from the list of commands via the exclusion were overwritten and lost without being freed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-25help.c::uniq: plug a leakLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+5
We observe that the j-1 element can serve the same purpose as the i-1 element that we use in the strcmp(); it is either: 1. Exactly i-1, when the loop begins (and until we see a duplicate). 2. The same pointer that was stored at i-1 (if it was not a duplicate, and we just copied it into place). 3. A pointer to an equivalent string (i.e., we rejected i-1 _because_ it was identical to j-1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-03move git_version_string into version.cLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
The global git_version_string currently lives in git.c, but doesn't have anything to do with the git wrapper. Let's move it into its own file, where it will be more appropriate to build more version-related functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-29Reduce cost of deletion in levenstein distance (4 -> 3)Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
Before this patch, a character deletion has the same cost as 2 swaps, or 4 additions, so Git prefers suggesting a completely scrambled command name to removing a character. For example, "git tags" suggests "stage", but not "tag". By setting the deletion cost to 3, we keep it higher than swaps or additions, but prefer 1 deletion to 2 swaps. "git tags" now suggests "tag" in addition to staged. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-03Merge branch 'nd/columns'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-35/+23
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1) * nd/columns: tag: add --column column: support piping stdout to external git-column process status: add --column branch: add --column help: reuse print_columns() for help -a column: add dense layout support t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1 column: add columnar layout Stop starting pager recursively Add column layout skeleton and git-column
2012-04-27help: reuse print_columns() for help -aLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-36/+23
"help -a" also respects column.ui (and column.help if presents) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-25help: replace underlining "help -a" headers using hyphens with a blank lineLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-13/+3
We used to underline a header text, like this: This is a header ---------------- content... But calculating text length so that the dashes align with the text could get complicated because the text could be in any charset in translated Git. There is no point to use this pseudo underline; simply a blank line would do and it even makes it easier to read: This is a header content... While at it, give translators more context to translate, e.g. e.g. "git commands available..." instead of "%s available..." Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-24i18n: help: mark strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-12/+20
This patch also marks most common commands' synopsis for translation so that "git help" gives a friendly listing. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13pager: find out the terminal width before spawning the pagerLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-22/+0
term_columns() checks for terminal width via ioctl(2) on the standard output, but we spawn the pager too early for this check to be useful. The effect of this buglet can be observed by opening a wide terminal and running "git -p help --all", which still shows 80-column output, while "git help --all" uses the full terminal width. Run the check before we spawn the pager to fix this. While at it, move term_columns() to pager.c and export it from cache.h so that callers other than the help subsystem can use it. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'ms/help-unknown'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
* ms/help-unknown: help_unknown_cmd: do not propose an "unknown" cmd
2011-07-08help_unknown_cmd: do not propose an "unknown" cmdLibravatar Michael Schubert1-0/+12
When executing an external shell script like `git foo` with a bad shebang, e.g. "#!/usr/bin/not/existing", execvp returns 127 (ENOENT). Since help_unknown_cmd proposes the use of all external commands similar to the name of the "unknown" command, it suggests the just failed command again. Stop it and give some advice to the user. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-16help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwinLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-1/+4
Test t7606-merge-custom.sh fails on cygwin when git-merge fails with an "Could not find merge strategy 'theirs'" error, despite the test correctly preparing an (executable) git-merge-theirs script. The cause of the failure is the mis-detection of the executable status of the script, by the is_executable() function, while the load_command_list() function is searching the path for additional merge strategy programs. Note that the l/stat() "functions" on cygwin are somewhat schizophrenic (see commits adbc0b6, 7faee6b and 7974843), and their behaviour depends on the timing of various git setup and config function calls. In particular, until the "git_dir" has been set (have_git_dir() returns true), the real cygwin (POSIX emulating) l/stat() functions are called. Once "git_dir" has been set, the "native Win32 API" implementations of l/stat() may, or may not, be called depending on the setting of the core.filemode and core.ignorecygwinfstricks config variables. We also note that, since commit c869753, core.filemode is forced to false, even on NTFS, by git-init and git-clone. A user (or a test) can, of course, reset core.filemode to true explicitly if the filesystem supports it (and he doesn't use any problematic windows software). The test-suite currently runs all tests on cygwin with core.filemode set to false. Given the above, we see that the built-in merge strategies are correctly detected as executable, since they are checked for before "git_dir" is set, whereas all custom merge strategies are not, since they are checked for after "git_dir" is set. In order to fix the mis-detection problem, we change the code in is_executable() to re-use the conditional WIN32 code section, which actually looks at the content of the file to determine if the file is executable. On cygwin we also make the additional code conditional on the executable bit of the file mode returned by the initial stat() call. (only the real cygwin function would set the executable bit in the file mode.) Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-05help: always suggest common-cmds if prefix of cmdLibravatar Erik Faye-Lund1-8/+39
If someone runs "git st", the command "git status" is not suggested because it's not one of the closest levenshtein-neighbour. Reserve the distance of 0 for common commands where the entered command is a prefixe, as these are often more likely to be what the user meant. This way, "git status" is the first suggestion, while a list of possible typos are still suggested as well. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-15Remove hyphen from "git-command" in two error messagesLibravatar Pete Harlan1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-15help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junkLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-2/+5
If a given command is not found, then help.c tries to guess which one the user could have meant. If help.autocorrect is 0 or unset, then a list of suggestions is given as long as the dissimilarity between the given command and the candidates is not excessively high. But if help.autocorrect was non-zero (i.e., a delay after which the command is run automatically), the latter restriction on dissimilarity was not obeyed. In my case, this happened: $ git ..daab02 WARNING: You called a Git command named '..daab02', which does not exist. Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'read-tree' in 4.0 seconds automatically... The patch reuses the similarity limit that is also applied when the list of suggested commands is printed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-18Test for WIN32 instead of __MINGW32_Libravatar Frank Li1-1/+1
The code which is conditional on MinGW32 is actually conditional on Windows. Use the WIN32 symbol, which is defined by the MINGW32 and MSVC environments, but not by Cygwin. Define SNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR=1 for MSVC too, as its vsnprintf function does not add NUL at the end of the buffer if the result fits the buffer size exactly. Signed-off-by: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-18Avoid declaration after statementLibravatar Frank Li1-1/+2
MSVC does not understand this C99 style. Signed-off-by: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12Merge branch 'maint-1.6.3' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint-1.6.3: Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands" Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()
2009-08-12Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"Libravatar Ori Avtalion1-1/+1
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to use the term "git commands" consistently. Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+1
These two structures are of the same type, but we'd better be consistent. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22janitor: add DIV_ROUND_UP and use it.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-11git wrapper: also use aliases to correct mistyped commandsLibravatar Pieter de Bie1-8/+24
Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-07Merge branch 'ar/autospell'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+88
* ar/autospell: Add help.autocorrect to enable/disable autocorrecting git wrapper: DWIM mistyped commands
2008-08-31Add help.autocorrect to enable/disable autocorrectingLibravatar Alex Riesen1-1/+18
It is off(0) by default, to avoid scaring people unless they asked to. If set to a non-0 value, wait for that amount of deciseconds before running the corrected command. Suggested by Junio, so he has a chance to hit Ctrl-C. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31git wrapper: DWIM mistyped commandsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+71
This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some similar commands when an unknown command was encountered: swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4 A typical output would now look like this: $ git sm git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean one of these? am rm The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined to give sensible results. As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under the assumption that the user mistyped it. Example: $ git reabse WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does not exist. Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase' [...] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-28list_commands: only call git_exec_path if it is neededLibravatar Alex Riesen1-1/+1
Even if it always needed Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-28Allow git help work without PATH setLibravatar Alex Riesen1-23/+20
Just because we can Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-28Remove calculation of the longest command name from where it is not usedLibravatar Alex Riesen1-19/+15
Just calculate it where it is needed - it is cheap and trivial, as all the lengths are already there (stored when creating the command lists). Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-02Builtin git-help.Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-464/+0
This patch splits out git-help's functions to builtin-help.c and leaves only functions used by other builtins in help.c. First this removes git-help's functions from libgit which are not interesting for other builtins, second this makes 'git help help' work again. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30builtin-help: always load_command_list() in cmd_help()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+1
When cmd_help() is called, we always need the list of main and other commands, not just when the list of all commands is shown. Before this patch 'git help diff' invoked 'man gitdiff' because cmd_to_page() thought 'diff' is not a git command. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29builtin-help: make some internal functions available to other builtinsLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-38/+39
Make load_command_list() capable of filtering for a given prefix and loading into a pair of "struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller. Make the static add_cmdname(), exclude_cmds() and is_in_cmdlist() functions non-static. Make list_commands() accept a custom title, and work from a pair of "struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27Avoid chdir() in list_commands_in_dir()Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+10
The function list_commands_in_dir() tried to be lazy and just chdir() to the directory which entries it listed, so that the check if the file is executable could be done on dir->d_name. However, there is no good reason to jump around wildly just to find all Git commands. Instead, have a strbuf and construct the full path dynamically. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-16Merge branch 'sb/dashless'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* sb/dashless: Make usage strings dash-less t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git" t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_fail Conflicts: builtin-blame.c builtin-mailinfo.c builtin-mailsplit.c builtin-shortlog.c git-am.sh t/t4150-am.sh t/t4200-rerere.sh
2008-07-13help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell APILibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-1/+13
The system's default browser for displaying HTML help pages is now used directly on Windows, instead of launching git-web--browser, which requires a Unix shell. Avoiding MSYS' bash when possible is good because it avoids potential path translation issues. In this case it is not too hard to avoid launching a shell, so let's avoid it. The Windows-specific code is implemented in compat/mingw.c to avoid platform-specific code in the main code base. On Windows, open_html is provided as a define. If open_html is not defined, git-web--browse is used. This approach avoids platform-specific ifdefs by using per-function ifdefs. The "ifndef open_html" together with the introductory comment should sufficiently warn developers, so that they hopefully will not break this mechanism. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13help.c: Add support for htmldir relative to git_exec_path()Libravatar Steffen Prohaska1-3/+5
If htmldir (in the Makefile) is a relative path, this path will now be interpreted relative to git_exec_path. This can be used to create an installation that can be moved to a different directory without re-compiling. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example for such a setup. Note that the Makefile maps htmldir to the define GIT_HTML_PATH. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13Make usage strings dash-lessLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-1/+1
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string. But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form is no longer supported. This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version. For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh generates a dash-less usage string now. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02Merge branch 'j6t/mingw'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+28
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits) compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory. Windows: Make 'git help -a' work. Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to. Windows: Make the pager work. When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative. Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation. Turn builtin_exec_path into a function. Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member. Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime(). Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API. Windows: Implement a custom spawnve(). Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect(). Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find. Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads. Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs. Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation. Windows: Implement start_command(). ...
2008-06-27help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topicLibravatar Christian Couder1-8/+14
Before this patch, something like "git help tutorial" did not work, people had to use "git help gittutorial" which is not very intuitive. This patch uses the "is_git_command" function to test early if the argument passed to "git help" is a git command, and if this is not the case then we prefix the argument with "git" instead of "git-". This way, things like "git help tutorial" or "git help glossary" will work fine. The little downside of this patch is that the "is_git_command" is a little bit slow. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-26Windows: Make 'git help -a' work.Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-5/+28
git help -a scans the PATH for git commands. On Windows it failed for two reasons: - The PATH separator is ';', not ':' on Windows. - stat() does not set the executable bit. We now open the file and guess whether it is executable. The result of the guess is good enough for the list of git commands, but it is of no use for a general stat() implementation because (1) it is a guess, (2) the user has no way to influence the outcome (via chmod or similar), and (3) it would reduce stat() performance by an unacceptable amount. Therefore, this strategy is a special-case local to help.c. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
2008-06-06Print info about "git help COMMAND" on git's main usage pagesLibravatar Teemu Likonen1-0/+2
Git's main usage pages did not show "git help" as a way to get more information on a specific subcommand. This patch adds an info line after the list of git commands currently printed by "git", "git help", "git --help" and "git help --all". Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-14Provide git_config with a callback-data parameterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+3
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify global variables. With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped that this will help the libification effort. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-26help: use "man.<tool>.cmd" as custom man viewer commandLibravatar Christian Couder1-18/+40
Currently "git help -m GITCMD" is restricted to a set of man viewers defined at compile time. You can subvert the "man.<tool>.path" to force "git help -m" to use a different man, viewer, but if you have a man viewer whose invocation syntax does not match one of the current tools then you would have to write a wrapper script for it. This patch adds a git config variable "man.<tool>.cmd" which allows a more flexible man viewer choice. If you run "git help -m GITCMD" with the "man.viewer" config variable set to an unrecognized tool then it will query the "man.<tool>.cmd" config variable. If this variable exists, then the specified tool will be treated as a custom man viewer and it will be run in a shell with the man page name of the GITCMD added as extra parameter. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-26help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config varLibravatar Christian Couder1-19/+124
This patch implements reading values from "man.<tool>.path" configuration variables, and using these values as pathes to the man viewer <tool>s when lauching them. This makes it possible to use different version of the tools than the one on the current PATH, or maybe a custom script. In this patch we also try to launch "konqueror" using "kfmclient" even if a path to a konqueror binary is given in "man.konqueror.path". The "man_viewer_list" becomes a simple string list to simplify things for the following patches. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-01help: Add a missing OPT_END().Libravatar Christian Couder1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-12help: warn if specified 'man.viewer' is unsupported, instead of erroring outLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
When a document viewer that is unknown to the current version of git is specified in the .git/config file, instead of erroring out the process entirely, just issue a warning. It might be that the user usually is using a newer git that supports it (and the configuration is written for that version) but is temporarily using an older git that does not know the viewer. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-11help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config optionLibravatar Christian Couder1-78/+113
This allows multiple viewer candidates to be listed in the configuration file, like this: [man] viewer = woman viewer = konqueror viewer = man The candidates are tried in the order listed in the configuration file, and the first suitable one (e.g. konqueror cannot be used outside windowed environment) is used. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-11help: add "man.viewer" config var to use "woman" or "konqueror"Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+80
This patch makes it possible to view man pages using other tools than the "man" program. It also implements support for emacs' "woman" and konqueror with the man KIO slave to view man pages. Note that "emacsclient" is used with option "-e" to launch "woman" on emacs and this works only on versions >= 22. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>