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authorSergei Organov <osv@javad.com>2007-12-06 21:33:01 +0300
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-12-08 02:50:54 -0800
commit8e566f24b369836c43d720e4246a152b0e7724c6 (patch)
tree05a457911f11b3201ec5489ff486a970bbc85b3a /help.c
parent9758ecde9a0be8b9758d0a512c90f8bfc865af4f (diff)
downloadgit-8e566f24b369836c43d720e4246a152b0e7724c6.tar.gz
Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git
Prepend $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH environment variable before invoking 'man' from help.c:show_man_page(). There may be other git documentation in the user's MANPATH but the user is asking a specific instance of git about its own documentation, so we'd better show the documentation for _that_ instance of git. Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'help.c')
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 37a9c25db7..f935887d34 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -239,6 +239,27 @@ void list_common_cmds_help(void)
}
}
+static void setup_man_path(void)
+{
+ struct strbuf new_path;
+ const char *old_path = getenv("MANPATH");
+
+ strbuf_init(&new_path, 0);
+
+ /* We should always put ':' after our path. If there is no
+ * old_path, the ':' at the end will let 'man' to try
+ * system-wide paths after ours to find the manual page. If
+ * there is old_path, we need ':' as delimiter. */
+ strbuf_addstr(&new_path, GIT_MAN_PATH);
+ strbuf_addch(&new_path, ':');
+ if (old_path)
+ strbuf_addstr(&new_path, old_path);
+
+ setenv("MANPATH", new_path.buf, 1);
+
+ strbuf_release(&new_path);
+}
+
static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
{
const char *page;
@@ -254,6 +275,7 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
page = p;
}
+ setup_man_path();
execlp("man", "man", page, NULL);
}