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git help command broken in 1.7.11 #19
Description
The git help and git --help mechanism is broken in Git 1.7.11
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\libexec>git help clone
warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory
fatal: no man viewer handled the request
The underlying web-page launcher is ok - for some reason we are looking for 'man' instead of web--browse to show the help.
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patthoyts commentedon Jun 21, 2012
Git for Windows uses a system config /help.format/ to specify that the default help viewer should be the web browser.
git config --get help.formatreturns html as expected so something has changed in the git-help command. It looks like commit 1cc8af0 "help: use HTML as the default help format on Windows" is a likely candidate and has possibly broken the use of the config option.patthoyts commentedon Jun 21, 2012
This can be fixed by setting a new value in the Makefile to set the compiled default to html for msys builds. A separate fix to go to upstream git will also restore the use of the help.format config variable.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
svick commentedon Jun 25, 2012
Thanks, 68b7ef2 fixed this for me.
sschuberth commentedon Jul 8, 2012
The fix is included in version 1.7.11-preview20120704.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.
Set the default help format to html for msys builds.