Extended git help does not work

[Karvjorm]

If I try to use the following command on the command line

git help branch

I will receive the following error message:

warning: failed to exec 'man': No such file or directory
fatal: no man viewer handled the request

I'm using hrev43674.

[mmadia]

To note, installoptionalpackage man doesn't help, as git doesn't include its man pages.

[bonefish]

Replying to mmadia:

To note, installoptionalpackage man doesn't help, as git doesn't include its man pages.

I wonder why, but it could be because its configure determined that there's no man installed anyway.

I don't know, if this was a general opinion or not, but at least some ported software (e.g. gcc/binutils) tended to be built with HTML instead of man/info documentation. Which is why man isn't included. Unfortunately most packages at HaikuPorts are built the "standard" way, meaning that those come only with man/info documentation for which Haiku doesn't has a viewer by default.

So either HTML documentation is built for all ports and everything is configured to work seamlessly also in the console or man needs to be provided. Given our limited resources I guess the latter is the most reasonable approach ATM.

[scottmc]

gitdoc was added in hrev44266, this should fix this ticket. Please recheck by using:

installoptionalpackage gitdoc