From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:16:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4ti7qu1.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712062107520.21625@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu\, 6 Dec 2007 21\:09\:05 +0100 \(CET\)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
>
>> Prepend $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH environment variable before
>> invoking 'man' from help.c:show_man_page().
>
> This commit message is severely lacking. Why would you _ever_ prefer the
> installed man pages before invoking "man", which should find them
> anyway?
Obviously because you want manual pages corresponding to the version of
git you are invoking, not any random version of man-pages man may find
by default.
--
Sergei.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 18:33 [PATCH] Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git Sergei Organov
2007-12-06 20:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-07 10:16 ` Sergei Organov [this message]
2007-12-07 10:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-07 11:51 ` Sergei Organov
2007-12-07 12:38 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-07 12:49 ` Sergei Organov
2007-12-07 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-07 16:19 ` David Brown
2007-12-07 16:22 ` David Brown
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