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help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API

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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@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-13 22:31:20 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 868da8d5e3
commit 4804aabcdb
3 changed files with 38 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -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)