Subject: Re: [PATCH] meson: make GIT_HTML_PATH configurable

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 08:51:00 +0100

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 08:58:29AM -0500, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> Makefile-based builds can configure Git's internal HTML_PATH by defining
> htmldir, which is useful for packagers that put documentation in
> different locations. Gentoo, for example, uses version-suffixed
> directories like ${prefix}/share/doc/git-2.51 and puts the HTML
> documentation in an 'html' subdirectory of the same.
> 
> Propagate the same configuration knob to Meson-based builds so that
> "git --html-path" on such systems can be configured to output the
> correct directory.

Makes sense.

> diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build
> index 9d24f2da54..c00c9fe7f4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/meson.build
> +++ b/Documentation/meson.build

All of the conversions look sensible to me.

> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 2b763f7c53..1f95a06edb 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -768,13 +768,18 @@ if test_output_directory == ''
>    test_output_directory = meson.project_build_root() / 'test-output'
>  endif
>  
> +htmldir = get_option('htmldir')
> +if htmldir == ''
> +  htmldir = get_option('datadir') / 'doc/git-doc'
> +endif

This retains the status quo, good.

> diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
> index 143dee9237..13d421c067 100644
> --- a/meson_options.txt
> +++ b/meson_options.txt
> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>  # Configuration for Git installation
>  option('perllibdir', type: 'string', value: '',
>    description: 'Directory to install perl lib to. Defaults to <datadir>/perl5')
> +option('htmldir', type: 'string', value: '',
> +  description: 'Directory to install HTML docs to. Defaults to <datadir>/doc/git-doc')

Tiny nit: let's keep these options ordered lexicographically.

Other than that the patch looks good to me, thanks!

Patrick