Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> Hi Junio,
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > builtin/help.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
>> > index 7739a5c155..e001b6157c 100644
>> > --- a/builtin/help.c
>> > +++ b/builtin/help.c
>> > @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
>> > if (!strstr(html_path, "://")) {
>> > if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
>> > || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
>> > - die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
>> > + die("HTML documentation is not provided by this distribution of git.");
>>
>> Mentioning HTML in the message may be a good idea, but I feel that
>> "distribution of git" is not something we should say in the source
>> for those who are building from the source. Distributors are free
>> to munge before they generate their binary distribution, of course
>> ;-).
>
> So maybe something like
>
> #ifdef MISSING_HTML_MESSAGE
> die(_(MISSING_HTML_MESSAGE));
> #else
> die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
> #endif
>
> ?
No, distributors can fork and build from patched source. What I
meant was along these lines:
die(_("HTML documentation not installed in '%s'."), html_path));
die(_("The installer chose to omit HTML docs from '%s''.", html_path));
