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Re: t9902 fails

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2013, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
Show 22 quoted lines
> How about doing something like this and set that variable in the
> test instead?  If STD_ONLY is not set, you will get everything, but
> when STD_ONLY is set, we will stop reading from "help -a" when it
> starts listing additional stuff.
>
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index a4c48e1..415a078 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ __git_complete_strategy ()
>  __git_list_all_commands ()
>  {
>  	local i IFS=" "$'\n'
> -	for i in $(git help -a|egrep '^  [a-zA-Z0-9]')
> +	for i in $(LANG=C LC_ALL=C git help -a |
> +		   sed -n ${GIT_HELP_STD_ONLY+-e /^git.*elsewhere/q} -e '/^  [a-zA-Z0-9]/p')
>  	do
>  		case $i in
>  		*--*)             : helper pattern;;

Alternatively, we could do this and replace everything inside $() with "git help --standard", but that requires the completion script update to go in sync with the core update, which is a downside.

 builtin/help.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 help.c         |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index bd86253..e6b9b5f 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -36,11 +36,16 @@ enum help_format {
 
 static const char *html_path;
 
-static int show_all = 0;
+#define HELP_ALL 1
+#define HELP_STANDARD 2
+static int show_what;
 static unsigned int colopts;
 static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
 static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
+	OPT_SET_INT('a', "all", &show_what, N_("print all available commands"),
+		    HELP_ALL),
+	OPT_SET_INT(0, "standard", &show_what, N_("list subcommands that comes with git"),
+		    HELP_STANDARD),
 	OPT_SET_INT('m', "man", &help_format, N_("show man page"), HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
 	OPT_SET_INT('w', "web", &help_format, N_("show manual in web browser"),
 			HELP_FORMAT_WEB),
@@ -436,19 +441,27 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int nongit;
 	const char *alias;
 	enum help_format parsed_help_format;
-	load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
 
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_help_options,
 			builtin_help_usage, 0);
 	parsed_help_format = help_format;
 
-	if (show_all) {
+	load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds,
+			  show_what == HELP_STANDARD ? NULL : &other_cmds);
+
+	if (show_what == HELP_ALL) {
 		git_config(git_help_config, NULL);
 		printf(_("usage: %s%s"), _(git_usage_string), "\n\n");
 		list_commands(colopts, &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
 		printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string));
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (show_what == HELP_STANDARD) {
+		int i;
+		for (i = 0; i < main_cmds.cnt; i++)
+			printf("%s\n", main_cmds.names[i]->name);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	if (!argv[0]) {
 		printf(_("usage: %s%s"), _(git_usage_string), "\n\n");
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 2a42ec6..3e6b04c 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ void load_command_list(const char *prefix,
 		uniq(main_cmds);
 	}
 
+	if (!other_cmds)
+		return;
+
 	if (env_path) {
 		char *paths, *path, *colon;
 		path = paths = xstrdup(env_path);
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  2. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2013
  3. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 15, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2013
  5. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 15, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2013
  7. Jeff KingJan 15, 2013
  8. Torsten BögershausenJan 16, 2013
  9. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 17, 2013
  10. Jonathan NiederJan 18, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2013
  12. Torsten BögershausenJan 18, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2013
  15. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 18, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2013
  18. Torsten BögershausenJan 19, 2013
  19. Re* t9902 failsJunio C Hamano, Jan 19, 2013
  20. 1/2 help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one fileJunio C Hamano, Jan 19, 2013
  21. 2/2 help --standard: list standard commandsJunio C Hamano, Jan 19, 2013
  22. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 19, 2013
  23. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 19, 2013
  24. Jean-Noël AVILAJan 19, 2013
  25. Duy NguyenJan 16, 2013
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  27. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2013
  28. Duy NguyenJan 16, 2013
  29. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2013
  30. Duy NguyenJan 16, 2013
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2013
  32. Duy NguyenJan 16, 2013

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