git-core 1.6.0.2 - incorrect handling of html documentation

[luc@…]

Git expects its html documentation to be in a precise place, represented by the GIT_HTML_PATH environment variable in the source (builtin-help.c), set in the Makefile from the htmldir variable. The default git html path is $(sharedir)/doc/git-doc but the git-core Portfile installs all doc files including the html files in ${prefix}/share/doc/git-core. This makes commands like git help --web COMMAND to fail with the following error message: "fatal: '/opt/local/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory".

The git-core Portfile should either modify the htmldir variable in the Makefile or install the html documenation files in the correct location.

[maccheck@…]

Argh, it's hardly to find the difference between git-doc and git-core in the error message of git help... Therefore I didn't understand what the problem was.

I'm attaching patches to fix this issue.

[blb@…]

Done in r40902.

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