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-rw-r--r--builtin/help.c30
-rw-r--r--git.c15
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0012-help.sh52
3 files changed, 89 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index e8f79d7af5..49f7a07f85 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -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:
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 0f1937fd0c..1c61151758 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -522,21 +522,34 @@ static void strip_extension(const char **argv)
static void handle_builtin(int argc, const char **argv)
{
+ struct argv_array args = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
const char *cmd;
struct cmd_struct *builtin;
strip_extension(argv);
cmd = argv[0];
- /* Turn "git cmd --help" into "git help cmd" */
+ /* Turn "git cmd --help" into "git help --exclude-guides cmd" */
if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "--help")) {
+ int i;
+
argv[1] = argv[0];
argv[0] = cmd = "help";
+
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+ argv_array_push(&args, argv[i]);
+ if (!i)
+ argv_array_push(&args, "--exclude-guides");
+ }
+
+ argc++;
+ argv = args.argv;
}
builtin = get_builtin(cmd);
if (builtin)
exit(run_builtin(builtin, argc, argv));
+ argv_array_clear(&args);
}
static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..8faba2e8bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0012-help.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='help'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+configure_help () {
+ test_config help.format html &&
+
+ # Unless the path has "://" in it, Git tries to make sure
+ # the documentation directory locally exists. Avoid it as
+ # we are only interested in seeing an attempt to correctly
+ # invoke a help browser in this test.
+ test_config help.htmlpath test://html &&
+
+ # Name a custom browser
+ test_config browser.test.cmd ./test-browser &&
+ test_config help.browser test
+}
+
+test_expect_success "setup" '
+ # Just write out which page gets requested
+ write_script test-browser <<-\EOF
+ echo "$*" >test-browser.log
+ EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" '
+ configure_help &&
+ git help status &&
+ 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" '
+ >test-browser.log &&
+ test_must_fail git help --exclude-guides revisions &&
+ test_must_be_empty test-browser.log
+'
+
+test_expect_success "--help does not work for guides" "
+ cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+ git: 'revisions' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
+ EOF
+ test_must_fail git revisions --help 2>actual &&
+ test_i18ncmp expect actual
+"
+
+test_done