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authorChris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>2012-06-28 07:58:03 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-06-28 14:37:26 -0700
commit86272b4ffeb38fb4fb1da3603bba1094fab3731b (patch)
tree94de950bd0bb6684e9db0069160102c04bcea004 /builtin/help.c
parent89a852efb911c260d3f7b56ef8382a0725cc931b (diff)
downloadgit-86272b4ffeb38fb4fb1da3603bba1094fab3731b.tar.gz
Allow help.htmlpath to be a URL prefix
Setting this to a URL prefix instead of a path to a local directory allows git-help --web to work even when HTML docs aren't locally installed, by pointing the browser at a copy accessible on the web. For example, [help] format = html htmlpath = http://git-scm.com/docs will use the publicly available documentation on the git homepage. Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index 9e36fb4cc7..0c698b18c8 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -395,9 +395,11 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
html_path = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
/* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
- if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
- || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
- die(_("'%s': not a documentation directory."), html_path);
+ 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);
+ }
strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
strbuf_addf(page_path, "%s/%s.html", html_path, page);