Re: [PATCH 1/2] Show html help with git-help --html

[Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0000, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> +core.help::
> +	If 'html', it is equivalent to 'git-help' with option --html.
> +	If 'auto', it tries to open html files first. If that attempt fails
> +	(the html program does not exist or the program return non-zero
> +	value), then it will fall back to man pages. If 'man', always use
> +	man pages as usual.

This should mention the default value. (Which is 'man', if I read the
code correctly, isn't it?)

> +core.htmlprogram::
> +	Specify the program used to open html help files when 'git-help'
> +	is called with option --html or core.help is other than 'man'.
> +	By default, xdg-open will be used.
> +	Special strings '%p', '%f' and '%b' will be replaced with html
> +	full path, file name and git command (without .html suffix)
> +	respectively. If none is given, '%p' will be automatically appended
> +	to the command line.

htmlprogram sounds kludgy to me. I would've used htmlcommand or perhaps
htmlviewer. But I'm no native English speaker, so I might be entirely
wrong about that.

Gruesse,
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