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authorSteffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>2008-07-13 22:31:20 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-13 14:41:28 -0700
commit4804aabcdbffb41dba96825ca2693ea45830a108 (patch)
tree97d36d7fea4a6b5414cedf3cb7720beb4bdb189d /compat/mingw.c
parent868da8d5e329c951f0d0cd049a8f9fecda64d388 (diff)
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help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API
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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diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 3a05fe7da..c0bc849e4 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1017,3 +1017,25 @@ sig_handler_t mingw_signal(int sig, sig_handler_t handler)
timer_fn = handler;
return old;
}
+
+static const char *make_backslash_path(const char *path)
+{
+ static char buf[PATH_MAX + 1];
+ char *c;
+
+ if (strlcpy(buf, path, PATH_MAX) >= PATH_MAX)
+ die("Too long path: %.*s", 60, path);
+
+ for (c = buf; *c; c++) {
+ if (*c == '/')
+ *c = '\\';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+
+void mingw_open_html(const char *unixpath)
+{
+ const char *htmlpath = make_backslash_path(unixpath);
+ printf("Launching default browser to display HTML ...\n");
+ ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", 0);
+}