Setting this to a URL prefix instead of a path to a local directory allows
git-help --web to work even when HTML docs aren't locally installed, by
pointing the browser at a copy accessible on the web. For example,
[help]
format = html
htmlpath = http://git-scm.com/docs
will use the publicly available documentation on the git homepage.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/help.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index b467db2..60b3251 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -399,9 +399,11 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
html_path = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
/* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
- if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
- || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
- die(_("'%s': not a documentation directory."), html_path);
+ if (prefixcmp(html_path, "http:")) {
+ if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
+ || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+ die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
+ }
strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
strbuf_addf(page_path, "%s/%s.html", html_path, page);
--
1.7.10
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