Re: [PATCH 2/3] Allow help.htmlpath to be an http: URL

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

So one solution would be to simply remove the check entirely. It was a
slight nicety in some situations, but expanding the definition of the
HTML path to include full URLs means we can no longer accurately
determine what exists and what does not. So we can just stop trying and
let the browser handle it completely.

This, and "://", both sound sensible.

Another option would be to introduce a new "net" type of help format
which accepts a URL instead of a path. That would leave the existing
code-path untouched. But it does seem needlessly complex, as it would do
more or less the same thing as the "html" format.

Yeah, that does not sound like a good reason to have such a complex
scheme.

Thanks.