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2022-02-23help: add --no-[external-commands|aliases] for use with --allLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Add the ability to only emit git's own usage information under --all. This also allows us to extend the "test_section_spacing" tests added in a preceding commit to test "git help --all" output. Previously we could not do that, as the tests might find a git-* command in the "$PATH", which would make the output differ from one setup to another. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help: move column config discovery to help.c libraryLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
When a git_config() call was added in dbfae689690 (help: reuse print_columns() for help -a, 2012-04-13) to read the column config we'd always use the resulting "colopts" variable. Then in 63eae83f8f3 (help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis, 2018-05-20) we started only using the "colopts" config under "--all" if "--no-verbose" was also given, but the "git_config()" call was not moved inside the "verbose" branch of the code. This change effectively does that, we'll only call list_commands() under "--all --no-verbose", so let's have it look up the config it needs. See 26c7d067832 (help -a: improve and make --verbose default, 2018-09-29) for another case in help.c where we look up config. The get_colopts() function is named for consistency with the existing get_alias() function added in 26c7d067832. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-07help: do not expect built-in commands to be hardlinkedLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
When building with SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease, the built-in commands are no longer present in the `PATH` as hardlinks to `git`. As a consequence, `load_command_list()` needs to be taught to find the names of the built-in commands from elsewhere. This only affected the output of `git --list-cmds=main`, but not the output of `git help -a` because the latter includes the built-in commands by virtue of them being listed in command-list.txt. The bug was detected via a patch series that turns the merge strategies included in Git into built-in commands: `git merge -s help` relies on `load_command_list()` to determine the list of available merge strategies. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guidesLibravatar Philippe Blain1-1/+1
Since 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20), all man5/man7 guides listed in command-list.txt appear in the output of 'git help -g'. However, 'git help -g' still prefixes this list with "The common Git guides are:", which makes one wonder if there are others! In the same spirit, the man page for 'git help' describes the '--guides' option as listing 'useful' guides, which is not false per se but can also be taken to mean that there are other guides that exist but are not useful. Instead of 'common' and 'useful', use 'Git concept guides' in both places. To keep the code in line with this change, rename help.c::list_common_guides_help to list_guides_help. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16bugreport: gather git version and build infoLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-0/+1
Knowing which version of Git a user has and how it was built allows us to more precisely pin down the circumstances when a certain issue occurs, so teach bugreport how to tell us the same output as 'git version --build-options'. It's not ideal to directly call 'git version --build-options' because that output goes to stdout. Instead, wrap the version string in a helper within help.[ch] library, and call that helper from within the bugreport library. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16help: move list_config_help to builtin/helpLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-1/+0
Starting in 3ac68a93fd2, help.o began to depend on builtin/branch.o, builtin/clean.o, and builtin/config.o. This meant that help.o was unusable outside of the context of the main Git executable. To make help.o usable by other commands again, move list_config_help() into builtin/help.c (where it makes sense to assume other builtin libraries are present). When command-list.h is included but a member is not used, we start to hear a compiler warning. Since the config list is generated in a fairly different way than the command list, and since commands and config options are semantically different, move the config list into its own header and move the generator into its own script and build rule. For reasons explained in 976aaedc (msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution, 2019-07-29), some build artifacts we consider non-source files cannot be generated in the Visual Studio environment, and we already have some Makefile tweaks to help Visual Studio to use generated command-list.h header file. Do the same to a new generated file, config-list.h, introduced by this change. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
2019-08-30help: make help_unknown_ref() NORETURNLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Announce that calling help_unknown_ref() exits the program. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05*.[ch]: manually align parameter listsLibravatar Denton Liu1-3/+3
In previous patches, extern was mechanically removed from function declarations without care to formatting, causing parameter lists to be misaligned. Manually format changed sections such that the parameter lists should be realigned. Viewing this patch with 'git diff -w' should produce no output. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatchLibravatar Denton Liu1-15/+15
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations. Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern` declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch. This was the Coccinelle patch used: @@ type T; identifier f; @@ - extern T f(...); and it was run with: $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | grep -v ^compat/ | xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-12help.h: fix coding styleLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
We want a space after the `while` keyword. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband outputLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-0/+1
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote". Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is common in error messages, eg. ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages (eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention to those messages. The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble seeing these messages. The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with "remote: "). The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD> configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively, we match the keywords case insensitively too. Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client. Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29completion: drop the hard coded list of config varsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for git-completion.bash to consume. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29help: add --config to list all available configLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+44
Sometimes it helps to list all available config vars so the user can search for something they want. The config man page can also be used but it's harder to search if you want to focus on the variable name, for example. This is not the best way to collect the available config since it's not precise. Ideally we should have a centralized list of config in C code (pretty much like 'struct option'), but that's a lot more work. This will do for now. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21completion: allow to customize the completable command listLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can now customize it a new config variable. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21help: use command-list.txt for the source of guidesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
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 synopsisLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+2
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: support --list-cmds=list-<category>Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+2
This allows us to select any group of commands by a category defined in command-list.txt. This is an internal/hidden option so we don't have to be picky about the category name or worried about exposing too much. This will be used later by git-completion.bash to retrieve certain command groups. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,othersLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash. While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with --list-cmds since it's better suited for this task. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-08help: add help_unknown_ref()Libravatar Vikrant Varma1-0/+5
When the user gives an unknown string to a command that expects to get a ref, we could be more helpful than just saying "that's not a ref" and die. Add helper function help_unknown_ref() to take care of displaying an error message along with a list of suggested refs the user might have meant. An interaction with "git merge" might go like this: $ git merge foo merge: foo - not something we can merge Did you mean one of these? origin/foo upstream/foo Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-03Merge branch 'nd/columns'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1) * nd/columns: tag: add --column column: support piping stdout to external git-column process status: add --column branch: add --column help: reuse print_columns() for help -a column: add dense layout support t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1 column: add columnar layout Stop starting pager recursively Add column layout skeleton and git-column
2012-04-27help: reuse print_columns() for help -aLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
"help -a" also respects column.ui (and column.help if presents) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-25help: replace underlining "help -a" headers using hyphens with a blank lineLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+1
We used to underline a header text, like this: This is a header ---------------- content... But calculating text length so that the dashes align with the text could get complicated because the text could be in any charset in translated Git. There is no point to use this pseudo underline; simply a blank line would do and it even makes it easier to read: This is a header content... While at it, give translators more context to translate, e.g. e.g. "git commands available..." instead of "%s available..." Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-01builtin.h: Move two functions definitions to help.h.Libravatar Thiago Farina1-8/+11
The two functions defined here are implemented in help.c, so makes more sense to put the definition of those in help.h instead of in builtin.h. Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-07Merge branch 'ar/autospell'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ar/autospell: Add help.autocorrect to enable/disable autocorrecting git wrapper: DWIM mistyped commands
2008-08-31git wrapper: DWIM mistyped commandsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some similar commands when an unknown command was encountered: swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4 A typical output would now look like this: $ git sm git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean one of these? am rm The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined to give sensible results. As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under the assumption that the user mistyped it. Example: $ git reabse WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does not exist. Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase' [...] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-28Remove calculation of the longest command name from where it is not usedLibravatar Alex Riesen1-3/+3
Just calculate it where it is needed - it is cheap and trivial, as all the lengths are already there (stored when creating the command lists). Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-02Builtin git-help.Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+6
This patch splits out git-help's functions to builtin-help.c and leaves only functions used by other builtins in help.c. First this removes git-help's functions from libgit which are not interesting for other builtins, second this makes 'git help help' work again. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29builtin-help: make some internal functions available to other builtinsLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+23
Make load_command_list() capable of filtering for a given prefix and loading into a pair of "struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller. Make the static add_cmdname(), exclude_cmds() and is_in_cmdlist() functions non-static. Make list_commands() accept a custom title, and work from a pair of "struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>