Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > $ git log -h
>> > fatal: unrecognized argument: -h
>> > $ git log --help
>> > fatal: unrecognized argument: --help
>> >
>> > Maybe the usage string could be printed in those cases?
>>
>> Perhaps. Alternatively, "git help log", perhaps.
>
> What about git-log then?
What about it?
Asking for help on log could be spelled as "git log --help" with
a patch like the attached, but I am not sure that is worth it...
-- >8 --
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 78ed403..7fdacdd 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -497,6 +497,16 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv, ch
}
argv[0] = cmd;
+ /* It could be git blah --help or git boo -h, but be
+ * careful; most commands have their own '-h' and '--help'.
+ */
+ if (argc == 2 &&
+ (!strcmp(argv[1], "-h") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--help"))) {
+ argv[0] = "help";
+ argv[1] = cmd;
+ exit(cmd_help(1, argv, envp));
+ }
+
/*
* We search for git commands in the following order:
* - git_exec_path()
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