From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, larsxschneider@gmail.com, me@jnm2.com,
philipoakley@iee.org, john@keeping.me.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:27:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60r0ei9k.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160816162030.27754-1-ralf.thielow@gmail.com> (Ralf Thielow's message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:20:30 +0200")
Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> writes:
> builtin/help.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> git.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> t/t0012-help.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 t/t0012-help.sh
>
> diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
> index 8848013..76f07c7 100644
> --- a/builtin/help.c
> +++ b/builtin/help.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ static int show_all = 0;
> static int show_guides = 0;
> static unsigned int colopts;
> static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
> +static int swapped = 0;
This is not the first offender (show_guides above does so, too), but
please do not initialize static explicitly to 0 or NULL.
> static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
> + OPT_BOOL('s', "swapped", &swapped, "mark as being called by <cmd> --help"),
> OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
> OPT_BOOL('g', "guides", &show_guides, N_("print list of useful guides")),
> OPT_SET_INT('m', "man", &help_format, N_("show man page"), HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
> @@ -433,10 +435,29 @@ static void list_common_guides_help(void)
> putchar('\n');
> }
>
> +static const char* check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
Style: "static const char *check_git_cmd(const char *cmd)". The
asterisk that turns the base type to a pointer to the base type
sticks to the identifier, not to the type.
> +{
> + char *alias;
> +
> + if (is_git_command(cmd))
> + return cmd;
> +
> + alias = alias_lookup(cmd);
> + if (alias) {
> + printf_ln(_("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'"), cmd, alias);
> + free(alias);
> + exit(0);
> + }
> +
> + if (swapped)
> + return help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
I am guilty of suggesting "swapped"; even if we are going to mark
this as OPT_HIDDEN, I think we should be able to think of a better
name. I think the meaning of this boolean is "we know that this is
not a guide and is meant to be a command.", and I hope we can come
up with a name that concisely expresses that (e.g. "--not-a-guide",
"--must-be-a-command").
> + return cmd;
> +}
> +
> int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> {
> int nongit;
> - char *alias;
> enum help_format parsed_help_format;
>
> argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_help_options,
> @@ -476,12 +497,7 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> if (help_format == HELP_FORMAT_NONE)
> help_format = parse_help_format(DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT);
>
> - alias = alias_lookup(argv[0]);
> - if (alias && !is_git_command(argv[0])) {
> - printf_ln(_("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'"), argv[0], alias);
> - free(alias);
> - return 0;
> - }
> + argv[0] = check_git_cmd(argv[0]);
>
> switch (help_format) {
> case HELP_FORMAT_NONE:
> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index 0f1937f..71ea983 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -528,10 +528,23 @@ static void handle_builtin(int argc, const char **argv)
> strip_extension(argv);
> cmd = argv[0];
>
> - /* Turn "git cmd --help" into "git help cmd" */
> + /* Turn "git cmd --help" into "git help --swapped cmd" */
> if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "--help")) {
> + struct argv_array args;
> + int i;
> +
> argv[1] = argv[0];
> argv[0] = cmd = "help";
> +
> + argv_array_init(&args);
> + for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
> + argv_array_push(&args, argv[i]);
> + if (i == 0)
It is more idiomatic to say
if (!i)
around here.
> + argv_array_push(&args, "--swapped");
> + }
> +
> + argc++;
> + argv = argv_array_detach(&args);
> }
>
> builtin = get_builtin(cmd);
The code does this after it:
if (builtin)
exit(run_builtin(...));
and returns. If we didn't get builtin, we risk leaking args.argv
here, but we assume argv[0] = cmd = "help" is always a builtin,
which I think is a safe assumption, so the code is OK. Static
checkers that are only half intelligent may yell at you for not
releasing the resources, though.
> diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..6f700b1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/t/t0012-help.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +test_description='help'
> +
> +. ./test-lib.sh
> +
> +test_expect_success "pass --help to common guide" "
> + cat <<-EOF >expected &&
> + git: 'revisions' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> + EOF
> + (git revisions --help 2>actual || true) &&
> + test_i18ncmp expected actual
> +"
> +
> +test_done
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-16 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-12 2:00 `git stash --help` tries to pull up nonexistent file gitstack.html Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 16:03 ` Lars Schneider
2016-08-12 16:15 ` Joseph Musser
2016-08-12 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 18:14 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-12 20:10 ` [PATCH] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-12 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-12 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13 0:08 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-13 15:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 5:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-15 11:25 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 20:40 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-16 10:06 ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:20 ` [PATCH v3] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 16:33 ` John Keeping
2016-08-16 16:39 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-16 17:57 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-16 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 18:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:34 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-18 21:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] help: introduce option --command-only Philip Oakley
2016-08-19 8:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 15:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-23 17:41 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-24 7:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-19 8:39 ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2016-08-23 17:37 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API" Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] help: introduce option --exclude-guides Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:03 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:00 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 20:39 ` Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commands Ralf Thielow
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