At the moment, the default help format (i.e. the format that is chosen if 'git help xxx' is called without a help format parameter) is defined by the switch to be 'man'. However, on different platforms the preferred format might differ. For example, on Windows there is no man viewer, so we would prefer html. This patch adds the possibility to choose a default help format on compilation by defining DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT. If it is not specified the default is still 'man'. Example: make DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT=info Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@xxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 9 +++++++++ builtin/help.c | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 4592f1f..9df6213 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ all:: # the diff algorithm. It gives a nice speedup if your processor has # fast unaligned word loads. Does NOT work on big-endian systems! # Enabled by default on x86_64. +# +# Define DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT to "man", "info" or "html" +# (defaults to "man") if you want to have a different default when +# "git help" is called without a parameter specifying the format. GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE @$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1236,6 +1240,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) BLK_SHA1 = YesPlease NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease + DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html CC = compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl AR = compat/vcbuild/scripts/lib.pl @@ -1915,6 +1920,10 @@ SHELL_PATH_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH_CQ)) BASIC_CFLAGS += -DSHELL_PATH='$(SHELL_PATH_CQ_SQ)' endif +ifdef DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT +BASIC_CFLAGS += -DDEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT='"$(DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT)"' +endif + ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS) ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS) diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c index 43d3c84..536d4fd 100644 --- a/builtin/help.c +++ b/builtin/help.c @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ #include "column.h" #include "help.h" +#ifndef DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT +#define DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT "man" +#endif + static struct man_viewer_list { struct man_viewer_list *next; char name[FLEX_ARRAY]; @@ -445,7 +449,9 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); git_config(git_help_config, NULL); - if (parsed_help_format != HELP_FORMAT_NONE) + if (parsed_help_format == HELP_FORMAT_NONE) + help_format = parse_help_format(DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT); + else help_format = parsed_help_format; alias = alias_lookup(argv[0]); -- 1.7.9.msysgit.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html