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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bagasdotme@gmail.com, emilyshaffer@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bugreport: avoid duplicating options in usage()
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:39:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq35qg9iao.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210904021231.88534-2-carenas@gmail.com> ("Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón"'s message of "Fri, 3 Sep 2021 19:12:30 -0700")

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón  <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> 238b439d69 (bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info, 2020-04-16)
> includes the options with the commandline, which then means they will
> be duplicated in the output of `git bugreport -h`.
>
> remove them and while at it, make sure usage() is called if the wrong
> number of parameters is provided (ex: `git bugreport help`)

'remove' -> 'Remove'.

>  static const char * const bugreport_usage[] = {
> -	N_("git bugreport [-o|--output-directory <file>] [-s|--suffix <format>]"),
> +	N_("git bugreport"),

I do not quite see this as an improvement.  Without this change, the
user will see

	usage: git bugreport [-o <file>] [-s <format>]

	    -o <file>
		... explanation of what -o does ...
	    -s <format>
		... explanation of what -s does ...

and with the patch, it becomes unclear, especially for those who are
not used to "git subcommand -h" output convention, as we'd see only

	usage: git bugreport

on the first line, no?  If the patch is to use

	N_("git bugreport [<options>]")

as the new text, then that would be an improvement, though.

> @@ -141,6 +140,8 @@ int cmd_bugreport(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  
>  	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, bugreport_options,
>  			     bugreport_usage, 0);
> +	if (argc)
> +		usage_with_options(bugreport_usage, bugreport_options);

This is a good change (until we gain positional argument to the
subcommand, at which time we'd need to rethink the error checking).

>  	/* Prepare the path to put the result */
>  	prefixed_filename = prefix_filename(prefix,

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 11:59 [PATCH] Documentation: fix default directory of git bugreport -o Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-04  2:12 ` bugreport papercuts Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-04  2:12   ` [PATCH 1/2] bugreport: avoid duplicating options in usage() Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-07 21:39     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-04  2:12   ` [PATCH 2/2] bugreport: slightly better memory management Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-07 21:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-04  6:01   ` bugreport papercuts Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-07 21:09 ` [PATCH] Documentation: fix default directory of git bugreport -o Junio C Hamano

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