The value of this new command line option will be used as a key to
check the configuration for an help browser.
This should remove the last bit in 'git-help--browse' that was
specific to 'git-help', so that other git command can use
'git-help--browse'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git-help--browse" helper is to launch a browser of the user's choice
to view the HTML version of git documentation for a given command. It
used to take the name of a command, convert it to the path of the
documentation by prefixing the directory name and appending the
".html" suffix, and start the browser on the path.
This updates the division of labor between the caller in help.c and
git-help--browser helper. The helper is now responsible for launching
a browser of the user's choice on given URLs, and it is the caller's
responsibility to tell it the paths to documentation files.
This is in preparation to reuse the logic to choose user's preferred
browser in instaweb.
The helper had a provision for running it without any command name, in
which case it showed the toplevel "git(7)" documentation, but the
caller in help.c never makes such a call. The helper now exits with a
usage message when no path is given.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The convention for helper scripts has been
git-$TOOL--$HELPER. Since this is a "browse" helper for the
"help" tool, git-help--browse is a more sensible name.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
