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diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index 8d4f6dd301..53f2812dfb 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#include "exec-cmd.h"
#include "parse-options.h"
#include "run-command.h"
-#include "column.h"
+#include "config-list.h"
#include "help.h"
#include "alias.h"
@@ -33,35 +33,169 @@ enum help_format {
HELP_FORMAT_WEB
};
-static const char *html_path;
+enum show_config_type {
+ SHOW_CONFIG_HUMAN,
+ SHOW_CONFIG_VARS,
+ SHOW_CONFIG_SECTIONS,
+};
+
+static enum help_action {
+ HELP_ACTION_ALL = 1,
+ HELP_ACTION_GUIDES,
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG,
+ HELP_ACTION_USER_INTERFACES,
+ HELP_ACTION_DEVELOPER_INTERFACES,
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_FOR_COMPLETION,
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_SECTIONS_FOR_COMPLETION,
+} cmd_mode;
-static int show_all = 0;
-static int show_guides = 0;
-static int show_config;
-static int verbose;
-static unsigned int colopts;
+static const char *html_path;
+static int verbose = 1;
static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
static int exclude_guides;
+static int show_external_commands = -1;
+static int show_aliases = -1;
static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
- OPT_BOOL('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
+ OPT_CMDMODE('a', "all", &cmd_mode, N_("print all available commands"),
+ HELP_ACTION_ALL),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "external-commands", &show_external_commands,
+ N_("show external commands in --all")),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "aliases", &show_aliases, N_("show aliases in --all")),
OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "exclude-guides", &exclude_guides, N_("exclude guides")),
- OPT_BOOL('g', "guides", &show_guides, N_("print list of useful guides")),
- OPT_BOOL('c', "config", &show_config, N_("print all configuration variable names")),
- OPT_SET_INT_F(0, "config-for-completion", &show_config, "", 2, PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
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"),
HELP_FORMAT_WEB),
OPT_SET_INT('i', "info", &help_format, N_("show info page"),
HELP_FORMAT_INFO),
OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("print command description")),
+
+ OPT_CMDMODE('g', "guides", &cmd_mode, N_("print list of useful guides"),
+ HELP_ACTION_GUIDES),
+ OPT_CMDMODE(0, "user-interfaces", &cmd_mode,
+ N_("print list of user-facing repository, command and file interfaces"),
+ HELP_ACTION_USER_INTERFACES),
+ OPT_CMDMODE(0, "developer-interfaces", &cmd_mode,
+ N_("print list of file formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"),
+ HELP_ACTION_DEVELOPER_INTERFACES),
+ OPT_CMDMODE('c', "config", &cmd_mode, N_("print all configuration variable names"),
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG),
+ OPT_CMDMODE_F(0, "config-for-completion", &cmd_mode, "",
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_FOR_COMPLETION, PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
+ OPT_CMDMODE_F(0, "config-sections-for-completion", &cmd_mode, "",
+ HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_SECTIONS_FOR_COMPLETION, PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
+
OPT_END(),
};
static const char * const builtin_help_usage[] = {
- N_("git help [--all] [--guides] [--man | --web | --info] [<command>]"),
+ "git help [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose] [--[no-]external-commands] [--[no-]aliases]",
+ N_("git help [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>|<doc>]"),
+ "git help [-g|--guides]",
+ "git help [-c|--config]",
+ "git help [--user-interfaces]",
+ "git help [--developer-interfaces]",
NULL
};
+struct slot_expansion {
+ const char *prefix;
+ const char *placeholder;
+ void (*fn)(struct string_list *list, const char *prefix);
+ int found;
+};
+
+static void list_config_help(enum show_config_type type)
+{
+ struct slot_expansion slot_expansions[] = {
+ { "advice", "*", list_config_advices },
+ { "color.branch", "<slot>", list_config_color_branch_slots },
+ { "color.decorate", "<slot>", list_config_color_decorate_slots },
+ { "color.diff", "<slot>", list_config_color_diff_slots },
+ { "color.grep", "<slot>", list_config_color_grep_slots },
+ { "color.interactive", "<slot>", list_config_color_interactive_slots },
+ { "color.remote", "<slot>", list_config_color_sideband_slots },
+ { "color.status", "<slot>", list_config_color_status_slots },
+ { "fsck", "<msg-id>", list_config_fsck_msg_ids },
+ { "receive.fsck", "<msg-id>", list_config_fsck_msg_ids },
+ { NULL, NULL, NULL }
+ };
+ const char **p;
+ struct slot_expansion *e;
+ struct string_list keys = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
+ struct string_list keys_uniq = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
+ struct string_list_item *item;
+ int i;
+
+ for (p = config_name_list; *p; p++) {
+ const char *var = *p;
+ struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+ for (e = slot_expansions; e->prefix; e++) {
+
+ strbuf_reset(&sb);
+ strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s.%s", e->prefix, e->placeholder);
+ if (!strcasecmp(var, sb.buf)) {
+ e->fn(&keys, e->prefix);
+ e->found++;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ strbuf_release(&sb);
+ if (!e->prefix)
+ string_list_append(&keys, var);
+ }
+
+ for (e = slot_expansions; e->prefix; e++)
+ if (!e->found)
+ BUG("slot_expansion %s.%s is not used",
+ e->prefix, e->placeholder);
+
+ string_list_sort(&keys);
+ for (i = 0; i < keys.nr; i++) {
+ const char *var = keys.items[i].string;
+ const char *wildcard, *tag, *cut;
+ const char *dot = NULL;
+ struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+ switch (type) {
+ case SHOW_CONFIG_HUMAN:
+ puts(var);
+ continue;
+ case SHOW_CONFIG_SECTIONS:
+ dot = strchr(var, '.');
+ break;
+ case SHOW_CONFIG_VARS:
+ break;
+ }
+ wildcard = strchr(var, '*');
+ tag = strchr(var, '<');
+
+ if (!dot && !wildcard && !tag) {
+ string_list_append(&keys_uniq, var);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (dot)
+ cut = dot;
+ else if (wildcard && !tag)
+ cut = wildcard;
+ else if (!wildcard && tag)
+ cut = tag;
+ else
+ cut = wildcard < tag ? wildcard : tag;
+
+ strbuf_add(&sb, var, cut - var);
+ string_list_append(&keys_uniq, sb.buf);
+ strbuf_release(&sb);
+
+ }
+ string_list_clear(&keys, 0);
+ string_list_remove_duplicates(&keys_uniq, 0);
+ for_each_string_list_item(item, &keys_uniq)
+ puts(item->string);
+ string_list_clear(&keys_uniq, 0);
+}
+
static enum help_format parse_help_format(const char *format)
{
if (!strcmp(format, "man"))
@@ -70,6 +204,10 @@ static enum help_format parse_help_format(const char *format)
return HELP_FORMAT_INFO;
if (!strcmp(format, "web") || !strcmp(format, "html"))
return HELP_FORMAT_WEB;
+ /*
+ * Please update _git_config() in git-completion.bash when you
+ * add new help formats.
+ */
die(_("unrecognized help format '%s'"), format);
}
@@ -89,11 +227,10 @@ static int check_emacsclient_version(void)
{
struct strbuf buffer = STRBUF_INIT;
struct child_process ec_process = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
- const char *argv_ec[] = { "emacsclient", "--version", NULL };
int version;
/* emacsclient prints its version number on stderr */
- ec_process.argv = argv_ec;
+ strvec_pushl(&ec_process.args, "emacsclient", "--version", NULL);
ec_process.err = -1;
ec_process.stdout_to_stderr = 1;
if (start_command(&ec_process))
@@ -238,7 +375,7 @@ static int add_man_viewer_cmd(const char *name,
static int add_man_viewer_info(const char *var, const char *value)
{
const char *name, *subkey;
- int namelen;
+ size_t namelen;
if (parse_config_key(var, "man", &name, &namelen, &subkey) < 0 || !name)
return 0;
@@ -259,8 +396,6 @@ static int add_man_viewer_info(const char *var, const char *value)
static int git_help_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
{
- if (starts_with(var, "column."))
- return git_column_config(var, value, "help", &colopts);
if (!strcmp(var, "help.format")) {
if (!value)
return config_error_nonbool(var);
@@ -305,6 +440,8 @@ static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *git_cmd)
return git_cmd;
else if (is_git_command(git_cmd))
return xstrfmt("git-%s", git_cmd);
+ else if (!strcmp("scalar", git_cmd))
+ return xstrdup(git_cmd);
else
return xstrfmt("git%s", git_cmd);
}
@@ -346,10 +483,9 @@ static void exec_viewer(const char *name, const char *page)
warning(_("'%s': unknown man viewer."), name);
}
-static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
+static void show_man_page(const char *page)
{
struct man_viewer_list *viewer;
- const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
const char *fallback = getenv("GIT_MAN_VIEWER");
setup_man_path();
@@ -363,9 +499,8 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
die(_("no man viewer handled the request"));
}
-static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd)
+static void show_info_page(const char *page)
{
- const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
setenv("INFOPATH", system_path(GIT_INFO_PATH), 1);
execlp("info", "info", "gitman", page, (char *)NULL);
die(_("no info viewer handled the request"));
@@ -379,11 +514,14 @@ static void get_html_page_path(struct strbuf *page_path, const char *page)
if (!html_path)
html_path = to_free = system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH);
- /* Check that we have a git documentation directory. */
+ /*
+ * Check that the page we're looking for exists.
+ */
if (!strstr(html_path, "://")) {
- if (stat(mkpath("%s/git.html", html_path), &st)
+ if (stat(mkpath("%s/%s.html", html_path, page), &st)
|| !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
- die("'%s': not a documentation directory.", html_path);
+ die("'%s/%s.html': documentation file not found.",
+ html_path, page);
}
strbuf_init(page_path, 0);
@@ -396,9 +534,8 @@ static void open_html(const char *path)
execl_git_cmd("web--browse", "-c", "help.browser", path, (char *)NULL);
}
-static void show_html_page(const char *git_cmd)
+static void show_html_page(const char *page)
{
- const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
struct strbuf page_path; /* it leaks but we exec bellow */
get_html_page_path(&page_path, page);
@@ -415,9 +552,37 @@ static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
alias = alias_lookup(cmd);
if (alias) {
- printf_ln(_("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
- free(alias);
- exit(0);
+ const char **argv;
+ int count;
+
+ /*
+ * handle_builtin() in git.c rewrites "git cmd --help"
+ * to "git help --exclude-guides cmd", so we can use
+ * exclude_guides to distinguish "git cmd --help" from
+ * "git help cmd". In the latter case, or if cmd is an
+ * alias for a shell command, just print the alias
+ * definition.
+ */
+ if (!exclude_guides || alias[0] == '!') {
+ printf_ln(_("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
+ free(alias);
+ exit(0);
+ }
+ /*
+ * Otherwise, we pretend that the command was "git
+ * word0 --help". We use split_cmdline() to get the
+ * first word of the alias, to ensure that we use the
+ * same rules as when the alias is actually
+ * used. split_cmdline() modifies alias in-place.
+ */
+ fprintf_ln(stderr, _("'%s' is aliased to '%s'"), cmd, alias);
+ count = split_cmdline(alias, &argv);
+ if (count < 0)
+ die(_("bad alias.%s string: %s"), cmd,
+ split_cmdline_strerror(count));
+ free(argv);
+ UNLEAK(alias);
+ return alias;
}
if (exclude_guides)
@@ -426,51 +591,102 @@ static const char *check_git_cmd(const char* cmd)
return cmd;
}
+static void no_help_format(const char *opt_mode, enum help_format fmt)
+{
+ const char *opt_fmt;
+
+ switch (fmt) {
+ case HELP_FORMAT_NONE:
+ return;
+ case HELP_FORMAT_MAN:
+ opt_fmt = "--man";
+ break;
+ case HELP_FORMAT_INFO:
+ opt_fmt = "--info";
+ break;
+ case HELP_FORMAT_WEB:
+ opt_fmt = "--web";
+ break;
+ default:
+ BUG("unreachable");
+ }
+
+ usage_msg_optf(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"),
+ builtin_help_usage, builtin_help_options, opt_mode,
+ opt_fmt);
+}
+
+static void opt_mode_usage(int argc, const char *opt_mode,
+ enum help_format fmt)
+{
+ if (argc)
+ usage_msg_optf(_("the '%s' option doesn't take any non-option arguments"),
+ builtin_help_usage, builtin_help_options,
+ opt_mode);
+
+ no_help_format(opt_mode, fmt);
+}
+
int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
{
int nongit;
enum help_format parsed_help_format;
+ const char *page;
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_help_options,
builtin_help_usage, 0);
parsed_help_format = help_format;
- if (show_all) {
- git_config(git_help_config, NULL);
+ if (cmd_mode != HELP_ACTION_ALL &&
+ (show_external_commands >= 0 ||
+ show_aliases >= 0))
+ usage_msg_opt(_("the '--no-[external-commands|aliases]' options can only be used with '--all'"),
+ builtin_help_usage, builtin_help_options);
+
+ switch (cmd_mode) {
+ case HELP_ACTION_ALL:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--all", help_format);
if (verbose) {
setup_pager();
- list_all_cmds_help();
+ list_all_cmds_help(show_external_commands,
+ show_aliases);
return 0;
}
printf(_("usage: %s%s"), _(git_usage_string), "\n\n");
load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
- list_commands(colopts, &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
- }
-
- if (show_config) {
- int for_human = show_config == 1;
-
- if (!for_human) {
- list_config_help(for_human);
- return 0;
- }
+ list_commands(&main_cmds, &other_cmds);
+ printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string));
+ break;
+ case HELP_ACTION_GUIDES:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--guides", help_format);
+ list_guides_help();
+ printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string));
+ return 0;
+ case HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_FOR_COMPLETION:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--config-for-completion", help_format);
+ list_config_help(SHOW_CONFIG_VARS);
+ return 0;
+ case HELP_ACTION_USER_INTERFACES:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--user-interfaces", help_format);
+ list_user_interfaces_help();
+ return 0;
+ case HELP_ACTION_DEVELOPER_INTERFACES:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--developer-interfaces", help_format);
+ list_developer_interfaces_help();
+ return 0;
+ case HELP_ACTION_CONFIG_SECTIONS_FOR_COMPLETION:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--config-sections-for-completion",
+ help_format);
+ list_config_help(SHOW_CONFIG_SECTIONS);
+ return 0;
+ case HELP_ACTION_CONFIG:
+ opt_mode_usage(argc, "--config", help_format);
setup_pager();
- list_config_help(for_human);
+ list_config_help(SHOW_CONFIG_HUMAN);
printf("\n%s\n", _("'git help config' for more information"));
return 0;
}
- if (show_guides)
- list_common_guides_help();
-
- if (show_all || show_guides) {
- printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string));
- /*
- * We're done. Ignore any remaining args
- */
- return 0;
- }
-
if (!argv[0]) {
printf(_("usage: %s%s"), _(git_usage_string), "\n\n");
list_common_cmds_help();
@@ -488,16 +704,17 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
argv[0] = check_git_cmd(argv[0]);
+ page = cmd_to_page(argv[0]);
switch (help_format) {
case HELP_FORMAT_NONE:
case HELP_FORMAT_MAN:
- show_man_page(argv[0]);
+ show_man_page(page);
break;
case HELP_FORMAT_INFO:
- show_info_page(argv[0]);
+ show_info_page(page);
break;
case HELP_FORMAT_WEB:
- show_html_page(argv[0]);
+ show_html_page(page);
break;
}