Jeff KingBefore 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.
t/helper/test-tool.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Show changes to t/helper/test-tool.c +13 −2
diff --git a/t/helper/test-tool.c b/t/helper/test-tool.c index 6b5836dc1b..5df8b682aa 100644 --- a/t/helper/test-tool.c +++ b/t/helper/test-tool.c @@ -55,13 +55,23 @@ static struct test_cmd cmds[] = { { "write-cache", cmd__write_cache }, }; +static NORETURN void die_usage(void) +{ + size_t i; + + fprintf(stderr, "usage: test-tool <toolname> [args]\n"); + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cmds); i++) + fprintf(stderr, " %s\n", cmds[i].name); + exit(128); +} + int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv) { int i; BUG_exit_code = 99; if (argc < 2) - die("I need a test name!"); + die_usage(); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cmds); i++) { if (!strcmp(cmds[i].name, argv[1])) { @@ -70,5 +80,6 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv) return cmds[i].fn(argc, argv); } } - die("There is no test named '%s'", argv[1]); + error("there is no tool named '%s'", argv[1]); + die_usage(); }
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