Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Note that this patch also revert some recent changes in > "git-browse-help" because they prevented to look for config > variables in the global configuration file. You are right, but I think git-sh-setup can further be simplified, as NONGIT_OK users would just rely on the default behaviour of underlying plumbing (most notably "git config"). I do not think your change to help.c is sufficient to work inside a subdirectory. Here is an attempt to fix it on top of yours. --- git-sh-setup.sh | 7 +------ help.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh index b366761..270d559 100755 --- a/git-sh-setup.sh +++ b/git-sh-setup.sh @@ -124,13 +124,8 @@ get_author_ident_from_commit () { # Make sure we are in a valid repository of a vintage we understand, # if we require to be in a git repository. -if test -n "$NONGIT_OK" +if test -z "$NONGIT_OK" then - if git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1 - then - : ${GIT_DIR=.git} - fi -else if [ -z "$SUBDIRECTORY_OK" ] then : ${GIT_DIR=.git} diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index af0a433..551b5b9 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } else { + int nongit; + + setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); git_config(git_help_config); if (help_default_format) parse_help_format(help_default_format); - 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