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help -i: properly error out if no info viewer can be found

With this commit, git help -i <cmd> prints an error message and exits
non-zero instead of being silent and exit code 0.

Reported by Trent W. Buck through
 http://bugs.debian.org/537664

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maint
Gerrit Pape 16 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      builtin-help.c

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builtin-help.c

@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd) @@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd)
const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
setenv("INFOPATH", system_path(GIT_INFO_PATH), 1);
execlp("info", "info", "gitman", page, NULL);
die("no info viewer handled the request");
}

static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)

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