git help: special-case scalar

dscho · gitster · commit dd9603e22822 · 2022-09-02T10:02:56.000-07:00
With this commit, `git help scalar` will open the appropriate manual
or HTML page (instead of looking for `gitscalar`).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye &lt;vdye@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *git_cmd)
 		return git_cmd;
 	else if (is_git_command(git_cmd))
 		return xstrfmt("git-%s", git_cmd);
+	else if (!strcmp("scalar", git_cmd))
+		return xstrdup(git_cmd);
 	else
 		return xstrfmt("git%s", git_cmd);
 }

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ static const char cmd_to_page(const char git_cmd)`
`440`	`440`	`return git_cmd;`
`441`	`441`	`else if (is_git_command(git_cmd))`
`442`	`442`	`return xstrfmt("git-%s", git_cmd);`
	`443`	`+ else if (!strcmp("scalar", git_cmd))`
	`444`	`+ return xstrdup(git_cmd);`
`443`	`445`	`else`
`444`	`446`	`return xstrfmt("git%s", git_cmd);`
`445`	`447`	`}`