Re: [PATCH] send-email: add option -h
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Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
- Date
- Sep 6, 2011, 06:32 UTC
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- <20110906063236.GA4923@ecki>
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:
>
> > Most other git commands print a synopsis when passed -h. Make
> > send-email do the same.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
> > ...
> > +my $help;
> > +my $rc = GetOptions("help|H|h" => \$help,
>
> I do not think what the patch aims to do is wrong per-se, but
>
> $ git send-email --help
>
> already shows the full documentation, and I find it is misleading to say
> "help|H|h" here to pretend as if a long-help is triggered with this
> command. For that matter, do we have any other place that accept -H for
> help?
>
> IOW, shouldn't this line be this instead?
>
> > +my $rc = GetOptions("h" => \$help,Sure. I was just copy-pasting from git-svn.perl. And in fact I _was_ confused by the fact that it also seemed to allow --help, but in fact did not handle that case any different.
Just found a few more places, so how about this on top?
-->8-- From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:27:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] use -h for synopsis and --help for manpage consistently
The "git cmd --help" syntax is translated into "git help cmd" by git.c. Do not pretend to handle such cases in any individual commands.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> --- git-cvsserver.perl | 4 ++-- git-pull.sh | 2 +- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- git-svn.perl | 2 +- 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl index 1b8bff2..6c5185e 100755 --- a/git-cvsserver.perl +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl @@ -109,14 +109,14 @@ my $usage = " --strict-paths : Don't allow recursing into subdirectories\n". " --export-all : Don't check for gitcvs.enabled in config\n". " --version, -V : Print version information and exit\n". - " --help, -h, -H : Print usage information and exit\n". + " -h : Print usage information and exit\n". "\n". "<directory> ... is a list of allowed directories. If no directories\n". "are given, all are allowed. This is an additional restriction, gitcvs\n". "access still needs to be enabled by the gitcvs.enabled config option.\n". "Alternately, one directory may be specified in GIT_CVSSERVER_ROOT.\n"; -my @opts = ( 'help|h|H', 'version|V', +my @opts = ( 'h', 'version|V', 'base-path=s', 'strict-paths', 'export-all' ); GetOptions( $state, @opts ) or die $usage; diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index 63da37b..f08372a 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ do --d|--dr|--dry|--dry-|--dry-r|--dry-ru|--dry-run) dry_run=--dry-run ;; - -h|--h|--he|--hel|--help|--help-|--help-a|--help-al|--help-all) + -h) usage ;; *) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index 4ac6931..734356a 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ $SIG{INT} = \&signal_handler; # needing, first, from the command line: my $help; -my $rc = GetOptions("help|H|h" => \$help, +my $rc = GetOptions("h" => \$help, "sender|from=s" => \$sender, "in-reply-to=s" => \$initial_reply_to, "subject=s" => \$initial_subject, diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 89f83fd..a019f55 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ read_git_config(\%opts); if ($cmd && ($cmd eq 'log' || $cmd eq 'blame')) { Getopt::Long::Configure('pass_through'); } -my $rv = GetOptions(%opts, 'help|H|h' => \$_help, 'version|V' => \$_version, +my $rv = GetOptions(%opts, 'h' => \$_help, 'version|V' => \$_version, 'minimize-connections' => \$Git::SVN::Migration::_minimize, 'id|i=s' => \$Git::SVN::default_ref_id, 'svn-remote|remote|R=s' => sub {
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