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authorChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>2007-12-15 05:57:28 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-12-14 21:58:35 -0800
commit70087cdbd3671f5929689a9b77f414b8297641c2 (patch)
tree4c49563792e479574b67fdde3a8e2e07772d7c77 /help.c
parentdfaf75b4698833d820e77e9f42ef93f3b6d3669d (diff)
downloadgit-70087cdbd3671f5929689a9b77f414b8297641c2.tar.gz
git-help: add "help.format" config variable.
This config variable makes it possible to choose the default format used to display help. This format will be used only if no option like -a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web is passed to "git-help". The following values are possible for this variable: - "man" --> "man" program is used - "info" --> "info" program is used - "web" --> "git-browse-help" is used By default we still show help using "man". This patch also adds -m|--man command line option to use "man" to allow overriding the "help.format" configuration variable. Note that this patch also revert some recent changes in "git-browse-help" because they prevented to look for config variables in the global configuration file. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'help.c')
-rw-r--r--help.c64
1 files changed, 62 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index c96b1670f3..551b5b93b3 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -8,6 +8,44 @@
#include "exec_cmd.h"
#include "common-cmds.h"
+static const char *help_default_format;
+
+static enum help_format {
+ man_format,
+ info_format,
+ web_format,
+} help_format = man_format;
+
+static void parse_help_format(const char *format)
+{
+ if (!format) {
+ help_format = man_format;
+ return;
+ }
+ if (!strcmp(format, "man")) {
+ help_format = man_format;
+ return;
+ }
+ if (!strcmp(format, "info")) {
+ help_format = info_format;
+ return;
+ }
+ if (!strcmp(format, "web") || !strcmp(format, "html")) {
+ help_format = web_format;
+ return;
+ }
+ die("unrecognized help format '%s'", format);
+}
+
+static int git_help_config(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+ if (!strcmp(var, "help.format")) {
+ help_default_format = xstrdup(value);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return git_default_config(var, value);
+}
+
/* most GUI terminals set COLUMNS (although some don't export it) */
static int term_columns(void)
{
@@ -331,8 +369,30 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
show_info_page(argc > 2 ? argv[2] : NULL);
}
- else
- show_man_page(help_cmd);
+ else if (!strcmp(help_cmd, "--man") || !strcmp(help_cmd, "-m")) {
+ show_man_page(argc > 2 ? argv[2] : NULL);
+ }
+
+ else {
+ int nongit;
+
+ setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
+ git_config(git_help_config);
+ if (help_default_format)
+ parse_help_format(help_default_format);
+
+ switch (help_format) {
+ case man_format:
+ show_man_page(help_cmd);
+ break;
+ case info_format:
+ show_info_page(help_cmd);
+ break;
+ case web_format:
+ show_html_page(help_cmd);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
return 0;
}