Re: [PATCH 05/12] Windows(msysgit): Per default, display help as HTML in default browser

On Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

The implementation directly calls the Win32 API to launch the browser.
Note that the specific directory layout of msysgit is required.

+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+	const char* exec_path = git_exec_path();
+	char *htmlpath = make_native_separator(
+			   mkpath("%s/../doc/git/html/%s.html"
+				  , exec_path
+				  , git_cmd)
+			 );
+	if (!file_exists(htmlpath)) {
+		htmlpath = make_native_separator(
+			      mkpath("%s/../doc/git/html/git-%s.html"
+				     , exec_path
+				     , git_cmd)
+			   );
+		if (!file_exists(htmlpath)) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Can't find HTML help for '%s'.\n"
+				, git_cmd);
+			exit(1);
+		}
+	}
+	printf("Launching default browser to display HTML help ...\n");
+	ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", 0);
+#else

Can't we move this part into git-web--browse.sh? It should be a matter of 
calling

	start $htmlpath

(and msys-1.0.dll would convert slashes to backslashes for us).

-- Hannes