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[PATCH 3/3] Disregard extraneous arguments when providing help

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2006, 13:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20061022130531.16449.50598.stgit@localhost>
In-Reply-To
<20061022130214.16449.41482.stgit@localhost>
From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>

"stg --help pop" prints the help text for pop, but "stg --help pop foo" just prints the list of commands. That's silly, so fix it by simply ignoring the extra arguments.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
---
 stgit/main.py |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/stgit/main.py b/stgit/main.py
index 02d1eb1..9fa0afc 100644
--- a/stgit/main.py
+++ b/stgit/main.py
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def main():
     cmd = sys.argv[1]
 
     if cmd in ['-h', '--help']:
-        if len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[2] in commands:
+        if len(sys.argv) >= 3 and sys.argv[2] in commands:
             cmd = sys.argv[2]
             sys.argv[2] = '--help'
         else:
Previous: Karl Hasselström
Message 4 of 4 in “Fix a few rough spots in StGIT's help command”
  1. 0/3 Fix a few rough spots in StGIT's help commandKarl Hasselström, Oct 22, 2006
  2. 1/3 Let "stg help" be like "stg --help"Karl Hasselström, Oct 22, 2006
  3. 2/3 When no command was given, print usage messageKarl Hasselström, Oct 22, 2006
  4. 3/3 Disregard extraneous arguments when providing helpKarl Hasselström, Oct 22, 2006

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