The system's default browser for displaying HTML help pages is now used
directly on Windows, instead of launching git-web--browser, which
requires a Unix shell. Avoiding MSYS' bash when possible is good
because it avoids potential path translation issues. In this case it is
not too hard to avoid launching a shell, so let's avoid it.
The Windows-specific code is implemented in compat/mingw.c to avoid
platform-specific code in the main code base. On Windows, open_html is
provided as a define. If open_html is not defined, git-web--browse is
used. This approach avoids platform-specific ifdefs by using
per-function ifdefs. The "ifndef open_html" together with the
introductory comment should sufficiently warn developers, so that they
hopefully will not break this mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxx>
---
compat/mingw.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
compat/mingw.h | 3 +++
help.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 3a05fe7..0ca73f7 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1017,3 +1017,24 @@ sig_handler_t mingw_signal(int sig, sig_handler_t handler)
timer_fn = handler;
return old;
}
+
+static const char *make_backslash_path(const char *path) {
+ static char buf[PATH_MAX + 1];
+ char *c;
+
+ if (strlcpy(buf, path, PATH_MAX) >= PATH_MAX)
+ die ("Too long path: %.*s", 60, path);
+
+ for (c = buf; *c; c++) {
+ if (*c == '/')
+ *c = '\\';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+
+void mingw_open_html(const char *unixpath)
+{
+ const char *htmlpath = make_backslash_path(unixpath);
+ printf("Launching default browser to display HTML ...\n");
+ ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", 0);
+}
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 6bc049a..136361e 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ static inline unsigned int git_ntohl(unsigned int x)
sig_handler_t mingw_signal(int sig, sig_handler_t handler);
#define signal mingw_signal
+void mingw_open_html(const char *path);
+#define open_html mingw_open_html
+
/*
* git specific compatibility
*/
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 0f055bf..52d39b8 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -644,6 +644,18 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
strbuf_addf(page_path, "%s/%s.html", html_path, page);
}
+/*
+ * If open_html is not defined in a platform-specific way (see for
+ * example compat/mingw.h), we use the script web--browse to display
+ * HTML.
+ */
+#ifndef open_html
+void open_html(const char *path)
+{
+ execl_git_cmd("web--browse", "-c", "help.browser", path, NULL);
+}
+#endif
+
static void show_html_page(const char *git_cmd)
{
const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
@@ -651,7 +663,7 @@ static void show_html_page(const char *git_cmd)
get_html_page_path(&page_path, page);
- execl_git_cmd("web--browse", "-c", "help.browser", page_path.buf, NULL);
+ open_html(page_path.buf);
}
void help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
--
1.5.6.1.282.gd8a0d
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