Since commit 99caeed05 (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir, 2009-11-09), the git wrapper handles "-h" specially, skipping any repository setup but still calling the builtin's cmd_foo() function. This means that every cmd_foo() must be ready to handle this case, but we don't have any systematic tests. This led to "git am -h" being broken for some time without anybody noticing. This patch just tests that "git foo -h" works for every builtin, where we see a 129 exit code (the normal code for our usage() helper), and that the word "usage" appears in the output. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- t/t0012-help.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh index 8faba2e8b..487b92a5d 100755 --- a/t/t0012-help.sh +++ b/t/t0012-help.sh @@ -49,4 +49,16 @@ test_expect_success "--help does not work for guides" " test_i18ncmp expect actual " +test_expect_success 'generate builtin list' ' + git --list-builtins >builtins +' + +while read builtin +do + test_expect_success "$builtin can handle -h" ' + test_expect_code 129 git $builtin -h >output 2>&1 && + test_i18ngrep usage output + ' +done <builtins + test_done -- 2.13.0.613.g11c956365