Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As noted in 65f98358c0c (builtin/help.c: add --guide option, > 2013-04-02) and a133737b809 (doc: include --guide option description > for "git help", 2013-04-02) which introduced the --guide option it > cannot be combined with e.g. <command>. Missing comman ',' between 'option' and 'it'. > Change both the usage string to reflect that, and test and assert for I couldn't immediately tell which two things "both the usage string" is referring to. Presumably in the doc and "help -h" output? > this behavior in the command itself. Now that we assert this in code > we don't need to exhaustively describe the previous confusing behavior > in the documentation either, instead of silently ignoring the provided > argument we'll now error out. > > The comment being removed was added in 15f7d494380 (builtin/help.c: > split "-a" processing into two, 2013-04-02). The "Ignore any remaining > args" part of it is now no longer applicable as explained above, let's > just remove it entirely, it's rather obvious that if we're returning > we're done. Three sentences strung together with two commas ',' in between at the end of this paragraph. "A, let's B, it's C" -> "A. Let's B, because it's C" or something. > diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt > index 568a0b606f3..cb8e3d4da9e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt > @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git > SYNOPSIS > -------- > [verse] > -'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] [-g|--guides] > +'git help' [-a|--all [--[no-]verbose]] > [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [COMMAND|GUIDE] > +'git help' [-g|--guides] Good. > diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c > index 44ea2798cda..51b18c291d8 100644 > --- a/builtin/help.c > +++ b/builtin/help.c > @@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ static struct option builtin_help_options[] = { > }; > > static const char * const builtin_help_usage[] = { > - N_("git help [-a|--all] [-g|--guides] [--[no-]verbose]]\n" > + N_("git help [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose]]\n" > " [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>]"), > + N_("git help [-g|--guides]"), Good. I still think -s|--long is cluttering than helping, though. > + /* Options that take no further arguments */ > + if (argc && show_guides) > + usage_msg_opt(_("--guides cannot be combined with other options"), > + builtin_help_usage, builtin_help_options); At this point we have called parse_options() and there is no further funky command line parsing involved, so non-zero argc does mean we have something --guides does not know what to do. Good. > @@ -582,9 +588,6 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > > if (show_all || show_guides) { > printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string)); > - /* > - * We're done. Ignore any remaining args > - */ > return 0; > } > > diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh > index 5679e29c624..c3aa016fd30 100755 > --- a/t/t0012-help.sh > +++ b/t/t0012-help.sh > @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ test_expect_success 'basic help commands' ' > git help -a >/dev/null > ' > > +test_expect_success 'invalid usage' ' > + test_expect_code 129 git help -g git-add ;-) I would have expected a bare "add" not "git-add" here, but it is OK. It is funny that "git help git-add" still works, but that is a bug that is unrelated to this patch. > +' > + > test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" ' > configure_help && > git help status &&