Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

hub help does not support compressed man pages #2228

Closed
eli-schwartz opened this issue Aug 15, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2335
Closed

hub help does not support compressed man pages #2228

eli-schwartz opened this issue Aug 15, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2335
Labels
bug

Comments

@eli-schwartz
Copy link
Contributor

Many OS distributions will compress man pages by default. Since hub looks for the files to exist, it cannot find hub-foo.1.gz (or whatever you happen to use).

A better way to find man pages would be to check if man 1 hub-foo exits successfully. The man-db program will exit 16, if the asked-for page does not exist -- and it will automatically handle detection of compressed man pages.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
bug
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue.

Restructure manpage-based help format mislav/hub
Support compressed man-pages
2 participants
@mislav @eli-schwartz