This can be used in GUIs to open installed HTML documentation in the
browser.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx>
---
I've overseen a compiler warning due to a missing prototype. I've
removed git_html_path() and call system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH) directly
now. This wrapper is not necessary, initially I just followed the way of
how --exec-path calls git_exec_path().
Documentation/git.txt | 6 +++++-
Makefile | 1 +
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 1 +
git.c | 5 ++++-
perl/Git.pm | 12 +++++++++++-
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7513c57..2ce5e6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path]
[-p|--paginate|--no-pager]
[--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE]
[--help] COMMAND [ARGS]
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ help ...`.
environment variable. If no path is given, 'git' will print
the current setting and then exit.
+--html-path::
+ Print the path to wherever your git HTML documentation is installed
+ and exit.
+
-p::
--paginate::
Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, $PAGER).
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7867eac..bcf7cbb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1191,6 +1191,7 @@ strip: $(PROGRAMS) git$X
git.o: git.c common-cmds.h GIT-CFLAGS
$(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' \
+ '-DGIT_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"' \
$(ALL_CFLAGS) -c $(filter %.c,$^)
git$X: git.o $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(GITLIBS)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index e72ce24..fdc5a24 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1870,6 +1870,7 @@ _git ()
--bare
--version
--exec-path
+ --html-path
--work-tree=
--help
"
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index c2b181e..ff72e22 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include "run-command.h"
const char git_usage_string[] =
- "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
+ "git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [--html-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
const char git_more_info_string[] =
"See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.";
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc, int* envchanged)
puts(git_exec_path());
exit(0);
}
+ } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--html-path")) {
+ puts(system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH));
+ exit(0);
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "-p") || !strcmp(cmd, "--paginate")) {
use_pager = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-pager")) {
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 7d7f2b1..291ff5b 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ require Exporter;
@EXPORT_OK = qw(command command_oneline command_noisy
command_output_pipe command_input_pipe command_close_pipe
command_bidi_pipe command_close_bidi_pipe
- version exec_path hash_object git_cmd_try
+ version exec_path html_path hash_object git_cmd_try
remote_refs
temp_acquire temp_release temp_reset temp_path);
@@ -492,6 +492,16 @@ C<git --exec-path>). Useful mostly only internally.
sub exec_path { command_oneline('--exec-path') }
+=item html_path ()
+
+Return path to the Git html documentation (the same as
+C<git --html-path>). Useful mostly only internally.
+
+=cut
+
+sub html_path { command_oneline('--html-path') }
+
+
=item repo_path ()
Return path to the git repository. Must be called on a repository instance.
--
1.6.2.2.449.g1d936
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