Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-help: add -i|--info option to display info page.

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> Christian Couder a écrit :
>> "git help --info XXX" will now call "info git-XXX".
>
> If would be nice if this could be more generic. For example I'd like to
> use Emacs woman mode instead of info. Can't we have something like
>
>    $ git help --ext XXX
>
> "ext" standing for external and calling whatever command recorded into
> .gitconfig for example ?

There is a bit of conflict here.  We could do that and make the
implementation of "ext" command responsible to transform "commit" in

	$ git help --ext commit

to the location of manual page (or formatted HTML page, or node in the
info documentation).  git itself does not need to know much about where
the help material is in such an implementation.

But Christian's series is about making such "ext" thing easier to write.
No matter what kind of web browser is used, it needs to be told where
the preformatted HTML page for git-commit command is (and it does not
care where git-commit.1 manpage is found or what the node is called in
git.info document).  It makes it a bit too limiting by defining -w (web)
and -i (info) upfront without offering -x (ext), but we need to start
somewhere.

Having said that, I think this is a post 1.5.4 material.  Please keep
the discussion going, so that we can have something people can agree on
early after 1.5.4.