* [PATCH resend] help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topic
@ 2008-06-28 4:35 Christian Couder
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From: Christian Couder @ 2008-06-28 4:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Junio Hamano, Pieter de Bie, Jakub Narebski; +Cc: git
Before this patch, something like "git help tutorial" did not work,
people had to use "git help gittutorial" which is not very intuitive.
This patch uses the "is_git_command" function to test early if the
argument passed to "git help" is a git command, and if this is not the
case then we prefix the argument with "git" instead of "git-".
This way, things like "git help tutorial" or "git help glossary" will
work fine.
The little downside of this patch is that the "is_git_command" is a
little bit slow.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
help.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
The only change since the previous patch is that I removed
the following line after the 2 strcpy:
p[pre_len + cmd_len] = 0;
because it is useless.
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 6c16fb4..1f990b9 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -550,20 +550,26 @@ static int is_git_command(const char *s)
is_in_cmdlist(&other_cmds, s);
}
+static const char *add_prefix(const char *prefix, const char *cmd)
+{
+ size_t pre_len = strlen(prefix);
+ size_t cmd_len = strlen(cmd);
+ char *p = xmalloc(pre_len + cmd_len + 1);
+ strcpy(p, prefix);
+ strcpy(p + pre_len, cmd);
+ return p;
+}
+
static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *git_cmd)
{
if (!git_cmd)
return "git";
else if (!prefixcmp(git_cmd, "git"))
return git_cmd;
- else {
- int page_len = strlen(git_cmd) + 4;
- char *p = xmalloc(page_len + 1);
- strcpy(p, "git-");
- strcpy(p + 4, git_cmd);
- p[page_len] = 0;
- return p;
- }
+ else if (is_git_command(git_cmd))
+ return add_prefix("git-", git_cmd);
+ else
+ return add_prefix("git", git_cmd);
}
static void setup_man_path(void)
--
1.5.6.1.202.g316c4.dirty
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