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-rw-r--r--builtin/help.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index 9e36fb4..0c698b1 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -395,9 +395,11 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
html_path = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
/* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
- if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
- || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
- die(_("'%s': not a documentation directory."), html_path);
+ if (!strstr(html_path, "://")) {
+ if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
+ || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+ die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
+ }
strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
strbuf_addf(page_path, "%s/%s.html", html_path, page);