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[PATCH] Add --help to cogito 0.8

From
ABAlexander Beyn <malex-git@fatelectrons.org>
Date
May 2, 2005, 00:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20050502000019.GA1644@fatelectrons.org>

This patch adds -h and --help to all the cg- commands. It also moves the detailed help printing from cg-help into cg-Xlib.

I created it because I could never remember if cg-log or cg-diff requires the -r before the revs.

Alexander
Index: cg-Xlib
===================================================================
--- c3aa1e6b53cc59d5fbe261f3f859584904ae3a63/cg-Xlib  (mode:100755 sha1:940d27851019940d20d2a6b141977d1c9a5debc0)
+++ d8f4221f90207b6c472dd4a2de0bf5e4d131f745/cg-Xlib  (mode:100755 sha1:09668c5c9a02ff9df9957ce656db3358c8c1ca7f)
@@ -33,6 +33,17 @@
 	$(which mktemp) $dirarg $prefix"$1"
 }
 
+print_help () {
+	which "cg-$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
+	cat $(which cg-$1) | sed -n '3,/^$/s/^# *//p'
+	exit
+}
+
+for option in "$@"; do
+	if [ "$option" = "-h" -o "$option" = "--help" ]; then
+		print_help ${_cg_cmd##cg-}
+	fi
+done
 
 # Compatibility hacks:
 # 2005-04-26
Index: cg-help
===================================================================
--- c3aa1e6b53cc59d5fbe261f3f859584904ae3a63/cg-help  (mode:100755 sha1:d16446c005c4698f408bf651afd718d95f5a9cfe)
+++ d8f4221f90207b6c472dd4a2de0bf5e4d131f745/cg-help  (mode:100755 sha1:0ea78197b1c255540a35bd389c48f9a67431e556)
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
 
 if [ "$1" ]; then
 	cmd=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/^cg-//')
-	which "cg-$cmd" >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
-	cat $(which cg-$cmd) | sed -n '3,/^$/s/^# *//p'
-	exit
+	print_help $cmd
 fi
Next: Petr Baudis
Message 1 of 3 in “Add --help to cogito 0.8”
  1. Add --help to cogito 0.8Alexander Beyn, May 2, 2005
  2. cg-log -r?Petr Baudis, May 2, 2005
  3. Alexander BeynMay 2, 2005

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