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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt14
-rw-r--r--Makefile4
-rw-r--r--git.c8
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 78420b1..f1292fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git - the stupid content tracker
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path]
+'git' [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
[-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]
[--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>]
[-c <name>=<value>]
@@ -288,8 +288,16 @@ help ...`.
the current setting and then exit.
--html-path::
- Print the path to wherever your git HTML documentation is installed
- and exit.
+ Print the path, without trailing slash, where git's HTML
+ documentation is installed and exit.
+
+--man-path::
+ Print the manpath (see `man(1)`) for the man pages for
+ this version of git and exit.
+
+--info-path::
+ Print the path where the Info files documenting this
+ version of git are installed and exit.
-p::
--paginate::
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3a1fe20..ef57c1c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1680,7 +1680,9 @@ strip: $(PROGRAMS) git$X
git.o: common-cmds.h
git.sp git.s git.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' \
- '-DGIT_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"'
+ '-DGIT_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"' \
+ '-DGIT_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_SQ)"' \
+ '-DGIT_INFO_PATH="$(infodir_SQ)"'
git$X: git.o $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(GITLIBS)
$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ git.o \
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index ed89951..a5ef3c6 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#include "run-command.h"
const char git_usage_string[] =
- "git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path]\n"
+ "git [--version] [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]\n"
" [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects]\n"
" [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>]\n"
" [-c name=value] [--help]\n"
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged)
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--html-path")) {
puts(system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH));
exit(0);
+ } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--man-path")) {
+ puts(system_path(GIT_MAN_PATH));
+ exit(0);
+ } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--info-path")) {
+ puts(system_path(GIT_INFO_PATH));
+ exit(0);
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "-p") || !strcmp(cmd, "--paginate")) {
use_pager = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-pager")) {