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>
This commit is contained in:
Ralf Thielow
2016-08-26 19:58:35 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 3b1c6a9b6e
commit af74128f4a
2 changed files with 67 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ 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 exclude_guides;
static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
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"),
@ -426,10 +428,29 @@ static void list_common_guides_help(void)
putchar('\n');
}
static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
{
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 (exclude_guides)
return help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
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,
@ -469,12 +490,7 @@ 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: