Re: Custom subcommand help handlers

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] writes:

They had the issue that their windows users, using Git for Windows, do
not have the `man` package installed. Rather the `web` help of using the
.html version of the man page is used (needs administrator install in
some case). So user commands would need to provide both the man page for
Linux systems and some process to get the html equivalent into the right
folder - this latter case was the problem step.

So are they willing to prepare `web` help pages, because that is
what the users of Git for Windows are already familiar with, if "git
foo --help" is capable of showing it, just like "git commit --help"
shows the `web` help page for the subcommand?

As I said elsewhere on this thread, lack of equivalent for MANPATH
and INFOPATH makes `web` help harder to customize in that direction,
but that is a problem we can solve in our code.  Once it is there,
they can let the user install their `web` help pages into somewhere
the user has write access to and point at the "folder" with
GIT_HTMLPATH, I would presume?

Thanks.