Merge branch 'sb/dashless'

[git.git] / help.c

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index ee15955b0bdf665681c3e7762eae4b925bec64eb..bfc84aed10d49b1eb641d920a102e94d2e905fda 100644 (file)
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -633,15 +633,29 @@ static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd)
 static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
 {
        struct stat st;
+       const char *html_path = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
 
        /* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
-       if (stat(GIT_HTML_PATH "/git.html", &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
-               die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", GIT_HTML_PATH);
+       if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
+           || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+               die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
 
        strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
-       strbuf_addf(page_path, GIT_HTML_PATH "/%s.html", 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);
@@ -649,7 +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)