Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only

Hi Ralf,

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Ralf Thielow wrote:

2016-08-19 10:32 GMT+02:00 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

quoted

So how about fixing that? I would suggest to do it this way:

- configure help.format = html (for "man", the current code would always
  add $(prefix)/share/man to the MANPATH when testing, not what we want,
  and hacking this code *just* for testing is both ugly and unnecessary).

- configure help.htmlpath to point to a subdirectory that is created and
  populated in the same test script.

- configure help.browser to point to a script that is created in the same
  script and whose output we can verify, too.

The last point actually requires a patch that was recently introduced into
Git for Windows [*1*] (and that did not make it upstream yet) which
reverts that change whereby web--browse was sidestepped. That sidestepping
was well-intentioned but turned out to cause more harm than good.

So I'll pickup the patch you sent [1] to my series and prepare the test cases
the way you described to verify that the 'help' command works.

Thanks!

Ciao,
Johannes