On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:40:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sergei Organov <osv@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> "Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >>> git help gives me the below error. > >>> > >>> [master@git]$ git help add > >>> No manual entry for git-add > >>> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. > >>> [master@git]$ > >>> > >>> I have the git binaries installed via --prefix > >>> > >>> ./configure --prefix=/home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/ > >>> and to see the man page i have to say > >>> > >>> man -M /home/kvaneesh/bin-local/git/share/man/ > >> ... > >> When you run "man" from the command line, can you say > >> > >> $ man git-add > >> > >> and make it work? If it fails the same way, then what you are missing > >> is MANPATH environment variable, isn't it? > > > > I think what the OP asked for makes sense. git-help should better find > > corresponding version of manual pages automatically. This way, if one > > invokes different versions of git-help, he will get corresponding > > version of help text. > > I do not necessarily agree. Read what Aneesh wrote originally again, > and read what he _didn't_ write. > > Not only he needs to run his "man" with -M (and my point was that it is > not the only way, by the way), he needs to futz with his $PATH to > include $HOME/bin-local/git for _his_ installation to work. > > I think my suggestion to use $MANPATH is in line with what he is already > doing. If you install things in non-standard places, you can use > environments to adjust to what you did, and that's the reason PATH and > MANPATH environments are supported by your tools. > > Having said that, I do not mind accepting a patch that prepends the > nonlocal path to MANPATH in help.c::show_man_page(). Actually, current man utilities locate the manual page by looking where the executable is, if MANPATH isn't defined (tested in Linux and Darwin). So, "unset MANPATH; man git-add" should be sufficient. -- lfr 0/0
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