Hi Ralf, On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Ralf Thielow wrote: > 2016-08-19 10:32 GMT+02:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: > > > So how about fixing that? I would suggest to do it this way: > > > > - configure help.format = html (for "man", the current code would always > > add $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH when testing, not what we want, > > and hacking this code *just* for testing is both ugly and unnecessary). > > > > - configure help.htmlpath to point to a subdirectory that is created and > > populated in the same test script. > > > > - configure help.browser to point to a script that is created in the same > > script and whose output we can verify, too. > > > > The last point actually requires a patch that was recently introduced into > > Git for Windows [*1*] (and that did not make it upstream yet) which > > reverts that change whereby web--browse was sidestepped. That sidestepping > > was well-intentioned but turned out to cause more harm than good. > > > > So I'll pickup the patch you sent [1] to my series and prepare the test cases > the way you described to verify that the 'help' command works. Thanks! Ciao, Johannes -- 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