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,
johannes.schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] help: introduce option --exclude-guides
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:42:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpj3fhaz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tvjgxiy.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:06:45 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Let's hide this option from command help of "git help" itself, drop
> the short-and-sweet "-e", not command-line complete it, and leave it
> not-mentioned here.
> ...
> Unless there is a good reason you MUST do so, avoid quoting the test
> body with double quotes, as it invites mistakes [*1*].
>
> Also, how about using something like:
> ...
> instead? That way, you can ensure that "git help status" attempts
> to call git-status.html with the expected path, not gitstatus.html
> or status.html, or somesuch, immediately after running "git help
> status" in the next test by inspecting test-browser.log ...
Taking all of these together, I'll queue this as a proposed fix-up
directly on top of yours.
Documentation/git-help.txt | 6 +-----
builtin/help.c | 2 +-
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 2 +-
t/t0012-help.sh | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index eeb1950..40d328a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git help' [-a|--all] [-e|--exclude-guides] [-g|--guide]
+'git help' [-a|--all] [-g|--guide]
[-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ OPTIONS
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
option overrides any given command or guide name.
--e::
---exclude-guides::
- Do not show help for guides.
-
-g::
--guides::
Prints a list of useful guides on the standard output. This
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index 40901a9..49f7a07 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
static int exclude_guides;
static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
- OPT_BOOL('e', "exclude-guides", &exclude_guides, N_("exclude guides")),
+ OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "exclude-guides", &exclude_guides, N_("exclude guides")),
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),
OPT_SET_INT('w', "web", &help_format, N_("show manual in web browser"),
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 63cccb9..bd25b0a 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ _git_help ()
{
case "$cur" in
--*)
- __gitcomp "--all --exclude-guides --guides --info --man --web"
+ __gitcomp "--all --guides --info --man --web"
return
;;
esac
diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh
index f91088b..9d99812 100755
--- a/t/t0012-help.sh
+++ b/t/t0012-help.sh
@@ -7,27 +7,30 @@ test_description='help'
configure_help () {
test_config help.format html &&
test_config help.htmlpath test://html &&
- test_config help.browser firefox
+ test_config browser.test.cmd ./test-browser &&
+ test_config help.browser test
}
-test_expect_success "setup" "
- write_script firefox <<-\EOF
- exit 0
+test_expect_success "setup" '
+ write_script test-browser <<-\EOF
+ echo "$*" >test-browser.log
EOF
-"
+'
-test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" "
+test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" '
configure_help &&
git help status &&
- git help revisions
-"
+ echo "test://html/git-status.html" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect test-browser.log &&
+ git help revisions &&
+ echo "test://html/gitrevisions.html" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect test-browser.log
+'
-test_expect_success "--exclude-guides does not work for guides" "
- cat <<-EOF >expected &&
- git: 'revisions' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
- EOF
- test_must_fail git help --exclude-guides revisions 2>actual &&
- test_i18ncmp expected actual
-"
+test_expect_success "--exclude-guides does not work for guides" '
+ >test-browser.log &&
+ test_must_fail git help --exclude-guides revisions &&
+ test_must_be_empty test-browser.log
+'
test_done
--
2.10.0-rc1-260-gbdd1a2a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-26 19:44 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
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 [this message]
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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