Question

I’m new to git, but after attempting to get more information using $git help [command_name], it says “launching default browser to display HTML…”, but nothing happens.

Since installing Win7 64-bit, I’ve noticed issues with lower level drivers, but not so much with applications.

Any known issues with Win7 64-bit and Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309.exe?

gracias

Answer 1

None of the currently opened issues with msysgit mentions such a problem.

As mention in this old bug, you can check if the help html files are there or not, but I bet the right files are in the right place with recent msysgit distro.

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The issue 187 is similar to your problem, and reports an issue with:

• the Chrome browser
• and/or html association files:

For me on Windows XP the problem was missing .html file type extensions.
I downloaded Doug Knox’s “HTM/HTML Associations” registry fix.

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The issue 258 does report a problem under x64 system, when your installation path includes spaces:

It seems the start command even when launched natively from cmd.exe will mess up when
the target path has spaces in it.
If we ensure that the title argument is provided then it succeeds

 start "c:/A B/c.html" fails to open in browser
 start "browser" "c:/A B/c.html" succeeds

The bash equivalent is therefore

 start '"browse"' "$@"

So the correct fix is going to be to leave start alone and change how we call it in
web-browser. The attached patch should do the job I think.