Re: [PATCH] Improve git-help--browse browser support under OS X

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Le lundi 11 février 2008, Jay Soffian a écrit :
> On Feb 10, 2008 8:45 AM, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > I wonder if "open" works on OS X outside the OS X GUI environment. (And
> > do people use OS X outside the OS X GUI environment ?)
>
> "open" simulates double-clicking on a document icon, so, no it does
> not make sense to use it unless the GUI is active. What I was
> referring to though is that you can't ssh into another OS X host and
> use open, even if there is a user logged into the GUI on that host,
> for obvious security reasons.

Ok, thanks for this information.

> > In the git "next" branch, "git-help--browse" has been
> > renamed "git-web--browse". And the original patch is
> > against "git-web--browse" except in the title where it is
> > about "git-help--browse".
>
> Yeah, my typo in the title.
>
> > Anyway now in "next", "git-web--browse" is used by both "git help" and
> > "git instaweb", so the documentation of both commands need an update.
>
> The git instaweb documentation update should be in a separate patch.
> Though I think maybe the right way to handle this is add a new doc for
> git-web--browse and then have the instaweb and help docs refer to
> that, no?
>
> BTW, what is the reason for the two-dashes in git-web--browse's name?

The two-dashes means that it's an helper script, and this means that it may 
not have it's own documentation. Anyway maybe I will create a documentation 
for it and move common information from Documentation/git-help.txt and 
Documentation/git-instaweb.txt into it.

Thanks,
Christian.