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2018-10-04help -a: improve and make --verbose defaultNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list with commonly used commands and their short description and are suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details. "git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as well, and commands are properly grouped. "help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git config"). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21help: use command-list.txt for the source of guidesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for now. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsisNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
This lists all recognized commands [1] by category. The group order follows closely git.txt. [1] We may actually show commands that are not built (e.g. if you set NO_PERL you don't have git-instaweb but it's still listed here). I ignore the problem because on Linux a git package could be split anyway. The "git-core" package may not contain git-instaweb even if it's built because it may end up in a separate package. We can't know anyway. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Even if these are hidden options, let's make them a bit more generic since we're introducing more listing types shortly. The code is structured to allow combining multiple listing types together because we will soon add more types the 'builtins'. 'parseopt' remains separate because it has separate (SPC) to match git-completion.bash needs and will not combine with others. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-10help: use command-list.h for common command listNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
The previous commit added code generation for all_cmd_desc[] which includes almost everything we need to generate common command list. Convert help code to use that array instead and drop common_cmds[] array. The description of each common command group is removed from command-list.txt. This keeps this file format simpler. common-cmds.h will not be generated correctly after this change due to the command-list.txt format change. But it does not matter and common-cmds.h will be removed. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-05t0012: test "-h" with builtinsJeff King
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@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-30help: make option --help open man pages only for Git commandsRalf Thielow
If option --help is passed to a Git command, we try to open the man page of that command. However, we do it for both commands and concepts. Make sure it is an actual command. This makes "git <concept> --help" not working anymore, while "git help <concept>" still works. Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-30help: introduce option --exclude-guidesRalf Thielow
Introduce option --exclude-guides to the help command. With this option being passed, "git help" will open man pages only for actual commands. Since we know it is a command, we can use function help_unknown_command to give the user advice on typos. Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>