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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] git-help -i (info): finishing touches
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:27:26 -0800
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> Le lundi 10 d=C3=A9cembre 2007, Junio C Hamano a =C3=A9crit :
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> > This series attempts to add finishing touches to "git help -i" (in=
fo)
>> > support.
>
> It looks like the patch series you talk about was not sent to the lis=
t.

Hmph, it appears that there was a misconfiguration on my part to drive
send-email.  Look into 'next' branch.

> In the last patch there is:
>
> diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> index 9d7ad6f..c96b167 100644
> --- a/help.c
> +++ b/help.c
> @@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
>  static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd)
>  {
>         const char *page =3D cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
> +       setenv("INFOPATH", GIT_INFO_PATH, 1);
>         execlp("info", "info", "gitman", page, NULL);
>  }
>
> But I wonder if something like this would be better:

I do not think so, as MANPATH has that funky semantics of "appending th=
e
system path where a single colon separates an empty path component from
the rest." but I do not think there is anything like that in INFOPATH.