help: introduce option --exclude-guides

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>

Ralf Thielow committed Aug 26, 2016 at 19:58 UTC af74128f4a447678daae4d59069fba8a0c797210
2 files changed +67 -7
builtin/help.c
+23 -7
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ static int show_all = 0;
37 static int show_guides = 0;
38 static unsigned int colopts;
39 static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
40 +static int exclude_guides;
41 static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
42 OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
43 + OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "exclude-guides", &exclude_guides, N_("exclude guides")),
44 OPT_BOOL('g', "guides", &show_guides, N_("print list of useful guides")),
45 OPT_SET_INT('m', "man", &help_format, N_("show man page"), HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
46 OPT_SET_INT('w', "web", &help_format, N_("show manual in web browser"),
@@ -426,10 +428,29 @@ static void list_common_guides_help(void)
428 putchar('\n');
429 }
430
431 +static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
432 +{
433 + char *alias;
434 +
435 + if (is_git_command(cmd))
436 + return cmd;
437 +
438 + alias = alias_lookup(cmd);
439 + if (alias) {
440 + printf_ln(_("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'"), cmd, alias);
441 + free(alias);
442 + exit(0);
443 + }
444 +
445 + if (exclude_guides)
446 + return help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
447 +
448 + return cmd;
449 +}
450 +
451 int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
452 {
453 int nongit;
432 - char *alias;
454 enum help_format parsed_help_format;
455
456 argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_help_options,
@@ -469,12 +490,7 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
490 if (help_format == HELP_FORMAT_NONE)
491 help_format = parse_help_format(DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT);
492
472 - alias = alias_lookup(argv[0]);
473 - if (alias && !is_git_command(argv[0])) {
474 - printf_ln(_("`git %s' is aliased to `%s'"), argv[0], alias);
475 - free(alias);
476 - return 0;
477 - }
493 + argv[0] = check_git_cmd(argv[0]);
494
495 switch (help_format) {
496 case HELP_FORMAT_NONE:
t/t0012-help.sh new
+44
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
1 +#!/bin/sh
2 +
3 +test_description='help'
4 +
5 +. ./test-lib.sh
6 +
7 +configure_help () {
8 + test_config help.format html &&
9 +
10 + # Unless the path has "://" in it, Git tries to make sure
11 + # the documentation directory locally exists. Avoid it as
12 + # we are only interested in seeing an attempt to correctly
13 + # invoke a help browser in this test.
14 + test_config help.htmlpath test://html &&
15 +
16 + # Name a custom browser
17 + test_config browser.test.cmd ./test-browser &&
18 + test_config help.browser test
19 +}
20 +
21 +test_expect_success "setup" '
22 + # Just write out which page gets requested
23 + write_script test-browser <<-\EOF
24 + echo "$*" >test-browser.log
25 + EOF
26 +'
27 +
28 +test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" '
29 + configure_help &&
30 + git help status &&
31 + echo "test://html/git-status.html" >expect &&
32 + test_cmp expect test-browser.log &&
33 + git help revisions &&
34 + echo "test://html/gitrevisions.html" >expect &&
35 + test_cmp expect test-browser.log
36 +'
37 +
38 +test_expect_success "--exclude-guides does not work for guides" '
39 + >test-browser.log &&
40 + test_must_fail git help --exclude-guides revisions &&
41 + test_must_be_empty test-browser.log
42 +'
43 +
44 +test_done