From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:02:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-tool: show tool list on error
Message-ID: <b8791c01-05be-20aa-f4e9-40eaa547f1c8@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181017092506.GA15503@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 10/17/2018 5:25 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> Before we switched to one big test-tool binary, if you
> forgot the name of a tool, you could use tab-completion in
> the shell to get a hint. But these days, all you get is:
>
>    $ t/helper/test-tool approxidate
>    fatal: There is no test named 'approxidate'
>
> and you're stuck reading the source code to find it. Let's
> print a list of the available tools in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> Not really user-facing, but this bugged me enough earlier to write the
> patch. ;)
>
> Some of the individual tools have nice help, too (try
> "t/helper/test-tool date", which shows the approxidate command I was
> looking for), but some of them could probably stand to improve their
> friendliness (try "t/helper/test-tool config"). I think it's fine for
> people to improve them over time if and when they get annoyed.
This will improve contributors' lives! Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>