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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/help.c | 8 |
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); |