help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topic

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>
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Christian Couder 2008-06-28 06:35:03 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent d0658ec6fa
commit 2dce956e39

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help.c
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@ -527,20 +527,26 @@ static int is_git_command(const char *s)
is_in_cmdlist(&other_cmds, s);
}
static const char *prepend(const char *prefix, const char *cmd)
{
size_t pre_len = strlen(prefix);
size_t cmd_len = strlen(cmd);
char *p = xmalloc(pre_len + cmd_len + 1);
memcpy(p, prefix, pre_len);
strcpy(p + pre_len, cmd);
return p;
}
static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *git_cmd)
{
if (!git_cmd)
return "git";
else if (!prefixcmp(git_cmd, "git"))
return git_cmd;
else {
int page_len = strlen(git_cmd) + 4;
char *p = xmalloc(page_len + 1);
strcpy(p, "git-");
strcpy(p + 4, git_cmd);
p[page_len] = 0;
return p;
}
else if (is_git_command(git_cmd))
return prepend("git-", git_cmd);
else
return prepend("git", git_cmd);
}
static void setup_man_path(void)