git help foo invokes man git-foo if foo is a git command, otherwise it
invokes man gitfoo. 'help' is not a git command, but the manual page is
called git-help, so add this special exception.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function list_commands_in_dir() tried to be lazy and just chdir()
to the directory which entries it listed, so that the check if the
file is executable could be done on dir->d_name.
However, there is no good reason to jump around wildly just to find
all Git commands.
Instead, have a strbuf and construct the full path dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
If htmldir (in the Makefile) is a relative path, this path will now be
interpreted relative to git_exec_path. This can be used to create an
installation that can be moved to a different directory without
re-compiling. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example for such
a setup.
Note that the Makefile maps htmldir to the define GIT_HTML_PATH.
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>
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string.
But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just
copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form
is no longer supported.
This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version.
For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh
generates a dash-less usage string now.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch, something like "git help tutorial" did not work,
people had to use "git help gittutorial" which is not very intuitive.
This patch uses the "is_git_command" function to test early if the
argument passed to "git help" is a git command, and if this is not the
case then we prefix the argument with "git" instead of "git-".
This way, things like "git help tutorial" or "git help glossary" will
work fine.
The little downside of this patch is that the "is_git_command" is a
little bit slow.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git help -a scans the PATH for git commands. On Windows it failed for two
reasons:
- The PATH separator is ';', not ':' on Windows.
- stat() does not set the executable bit.
We now open the file and guess whether it is executable.
The result of the guess is good enough for the list of git commands, but
it is of no use for a general stat() implementation because (1) it is a
guess, (2) the user has no way to influence the outcome (via chmod or
similar), and (3) it would reduce stat() performance by an unacceptable
amount. Therefore, this strategy is a special-case local to help.c.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Git's main usage pages did not show "git help" as a way to get more
information on a specific subcommand. This patch adds an info line after
the list of git commands currently printed by "git", "git help", "git
--help" and "git help --all".
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently "git help -m GITCMD" is restricted to a set of man viewers
defined at compile time. You can subvert the "man.<tool>.path" to
force "git help -m" to use a different man, viewer, but if you have a
man viewer whose invocation syntax does not match one of the current
tools then you would have to write a wrapper script for it.
This patch adds a git config variable "man.<tool>.cmd" which allows a
more flexible man viewer choice.
If you run "git help -m GITCMD" with the "man.viewer" config variable
set to an unrecognized tool then it will query the "man.<tool>.cmd"
config variable. If this variable exists, then the specified tool will
be treated as a custom man viewer and it will be run in a shell with
the man page name of the GITCMD added as extra parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch implements reading values from "man.<tool>.path"
configuration variables, and using these values as pathes to
the man viewer <tool>s when lauching them.
This makes it possible to use different version of the tools
than the one on the current PATH, or maybe a custom script.
In this patch we also try to launch "konqueror" using
"kfmclient" even if a path to a konqueror binary is given
in "man.konqueror.path".
The "man_viewer_list" becomes a simple string list to simplify
things for the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a document viewer that is unknown to the current version of git is
specified in the .git/config file, instead of erroring out the process
entirely, just issue a warning. It might be that the user usually is
using a newer git that supports it (and the configuration is written for
that version) but is temporarily using an older git that does not know the
viewer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows multiple viewer candidates to be listed in the configuration
file, like this:
[man]
viewer = woman
viewer = konqueror
viewer = man
The candidates are tried in the order listed in the configuration file,
and the first suitable one (e.g. konqueror cannot be used outside windowed
environment) is used.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch makes it possible to view man pages using other tools
than the "man" program. It also implements support for emacs'
"woman" and konqueror with the man KIO slave to view man pages.
Note that "emacsclient" is used with option "-e" to launch "woman"
on emacs and this works only on versions >= 22.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have an alias "foo" defined, then the help text for
"foo" (via "git help foo" or "git foo --help") now shows the
definition of the alias.
Before showing an alias definition, we make sure that there
is no git command which would override the alias (so that
even though you may have a "log" alias, even though it will
not work, we don't want to it supersede "git help log").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch converts cmd_help to use parseopt, along with a
few style cleanups, including:
- enum constants are now ALL_CAPS
- parse_help_format returns an enum value rather than
setting a global as a side effect
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value of this new command line option will be used as a key to
check the configuration for an help browser.
This should remove the last bit in 'git-help--browse' that was
specific to 'git-help', so that other git command can use
'git-help--browse'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git-help--browse" helper is to launch a browser of the user's choice
to view the HTML version of git documentation for a given command. It
used to take the name of a command, convert it to the path of the
documentation by prefixing the directory name and appending the
".html" suffix, and start the browser on the path.
This updates the division of labor between the caller in help.c and
git-help--browser helper. The helper is now responsible for launching
a browser of the user's choice on given URLs, and it is the caller's
responsibility to tell it the paths to documentation files.
This is in preparation to reuse the logic to choose user's preferred
browser in instaweb.
The helper had a provision for running it without any command name, in
which case it showed the toplevel "git(7)" documentation, but the
caller in help.c never makes such a call. The helper now exits with a
usage message when no path is given.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The convention for helper scripts has been
git-$TOOL--$HELPER. Since this is a "browse" helper for the
"help" tool, git-help--browse is a more sensible name.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This config variable makes it possible to choose the default format
used to display help. This format will be used only if no option
like -a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web is passed to "git-help".
The following values are possible for this variable:
- "man" --> "man" program is used
- "info" --> "info" program is used
- "web" --> "git-browse-help" is used
By default we still show help using "man".
This patch also adds -m|--man command line option to use "man"
to allow overriding the "help.format" configuration variable.
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.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now when using "git help -w cmd", we will try to show the HTML man
page "git-cmd.html" in your prefered web browser.
To do that "help.c" code will call a new shell script
"git-browse-help".
This currently works only if the HTML versions of the man page
have been installed in $(htmldir) (typically "/usr/share/doc/git-doc"),
so new target to do that is added to "Documentation/Makefile".
The browser to use can be configured using the "web.browser"
config variable.
We try to open a new tab in an existing web browser, if possible.
The code in "git-browse-help" is heavily stolen from "git-mergetool"
by Theodore Y. Ts'o. Thanks.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepend $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH environment variable before
invoking 'man' from help.c:show_man_page(). There may be other git
documentation in the user's MANPATH but the user is asking a specific
instance of git about its own documentation, so we'd better show the
documentation for _that_ instance of git.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help --info subcommand" will now call "info git-subcommand".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
... since all system headers are pulled in via git-compat-util.h
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The newbie user will run away screaming when they see all possible
commands. The expert user will already know about the -a option from
reading the git man page.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git had previously been using the $PATH for scripts--a previous
patch moved exec'ed commands to also use the $PATH. For consistency
"help -a" should also list commands in the $PATH.
The main commands are still listed from the git_exec_path(), but
the $PATH is walked and other git commands (probably extensions) are
listed.
Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current code builds absolute path strings for each file to
stat(), this can easily be avoided by chdir()ing into the directory.
Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
list_commands() currently accepts and ignores a "pattern" argument,
and then hard codes a prefix as well as some magic numbers. This
hardcodes the prefix inside of the function and removes the magic
numbers.
Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The double LF were there only because we gave a list of common
commands. WIth the list gone, there is no reason to have the
extra blank line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Remove out call to list_common_cmds_help()
- Send error message to stderr, not stdout.
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This mechanically converts strncmp() to use prefixcmp(), but only when
the parameters match specific patterns, so that they can be verified
easily. Leftover from this will be fixed in a separate step, including
idiotic conversions like
if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3))
=>
if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo")))
This was done by using this script in px.perl
#!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -p
if (/strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)/ && (length($2) == $3)) {
s|strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)|prefixcmp($1, "$2")|;
}
if (/strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)/ && (length($1) == $3)) {
s|strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)|(-prefixcmp($2, "$1"))|;
}
and running:
$ git grep -l strncmp -- '*.c' | xargs perl px.perl
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some of the short help texts that are shown e.g. when running 'git'
without any parameters wrap on a 80-column terminal. They are just
one character over the line. This patch avoids it by decreasing the
number of spaces around the preceding command name from four to
three (on both sides for symmetry).
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include
system header files.
(1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and
xdelta code are exempt from the following rules;
(2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of
our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h,
builtin.h, pkt-line.h);
(3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h"
need not be included in individual C source files.
(4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem
specific header files (e.g. expat.h).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: I needed to hand merge the changes to the updated codebase,
so the result needs to be checked.]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This cleans up the build procedure for built-in commands by:
- generating mostly redundant definition of BUILT_INS from
BUILTIN_OBJS in the Makefile,
- renaming a few files to make the above possible, and
- sorting the built-in command table in git.c.
It might be a good idea to binary search (or perfect hash) the built-in
command table, but that can be done later when somebody feels like.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The cmd_usage() routine was causing warning messages due to a NULL
format parameter being passed in three out of four calls. This is a
problem if you want to compile with -Werror. A simple solution is to
simply remove the GNU __attribute__ format pragma from the cmd_usage()
declaration in the header file. The function interface was somewhat
muddled anyway, so re-write the code to finesse the problem.
[jc: this incidentally revealed that t9100 test assumed that the output
from "git help" to be fixed in stone, but this patch lower-cases
"Usage" to "usage". Update the test not to rely on "git help" output.]
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Allan Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the calling convention of built-in commands and
passes the "prefix" (i.e. pathname of $PWD relative to the
project root level) down to them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Miklos Vajna