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[PATCH] checkout-cache: add usage string.

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 14, 2005, 03:25 UTC
Message-ID
<7vmzoqkr1o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

This adds the usage string to checkout-cache and you can say "--help" to get it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 checkout-cache.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
0d87d25f9a8ecf6ee8c4bc0c1575f3c03614c339
diff --git a/checkout-cache.c b/checkout-cache.c
--- a/checkout-cache.c
+++ b/checkout-cache.c
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ static int checkout_all(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static const char *checkout_cache_usage =
+"git-checkout-cache [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] [--] <file>...";
+
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	int i, force_filename = 0;
@@ -123,6 +126,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 				state.base_dir_len = strlen(state.base_dir);
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (arg[0] == '-')
+				usage(checkout_cache_usage);
 		}
 		if (state.base_dir_len) {
 			/* when --prefix is specified we do not
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