builtin: also setup gently for --help-all

Git experts often check the help summary of a command to make sure they
spell options right when suggesting advice to colleagues. Further, they
might check hidden options when responding to queries about deprecated
options like git-rebase(1)'s "preserve merges" option. But some commands
don't support "--help-all" outside of a git directory. Running (for
example)

    git rebase --help-all

outside a directory fails in "setup_git_directory", erroring with the
localized form of

    fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Like 99caeed05d (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir,
2009-11-09), we want to show the "--help-all" output even without a git
dir. Make "--help-all" where we expect "-h" to mean
"setup_git_directory_gently", and interpose early in the natural place
("show_usage_with_options_if_asked").

Do the same for usage callers with show_usage_if_asked.

The exception is merge-recursive, whose help block doesn't use newer
APIs.

Best-viewed-with: --ignore-space-change
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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D. Ben Knoble 2025-08-03 12:10:27 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent fe54b9ef02
commit 129b3632f3
5 changed files with 19 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ int cmd_merge_recursive(int argc,
if (argv[0] && ends_with(argv[0], "-subtree"))
o.subtree_shift = "";

if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h")) {
if (argc == 2 && (!strcmp(argv[1], "-h") ||
!strcmp(argv[1], "--help-all"))) {
struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
strbuf_addf(&msg, builtin_merge_recursive_usage, argv[0]);
show_usage_if_asked(argc, argv, msg.buf);

2
git.c
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@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv, struct
const char *prefix;
int run_setup = (p->option & (RUN_SETUP | RUN_SETUP_GENTLY));

help = argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h");
help = argc == 2 && (!strcmp(argv[1], "-h") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--help-all"));
if (help && (run_setup & RUN_SETUP))
/* demote to GENTLY to allow 'git cmd -h' outside repo */
run_setup = RUN_SETUP_GENTLY;

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@ -1461,10 +1461,16 @@ void show_usage_with_options_if_asked(int ac, const char **av,
const char * const *usagestr,
const struct option *opts)
{
if (ac == 2 && !strcmp(av[1], "-h")) {
usage_with_options_internal(NULL, usagestr, opts,
USAGE_NORMAL, USAGE_TO_STDOUT);
exit(129);
if (ac == 2) {
if (!strcmp(av[1], "-h")) {
usage_with_options_internal(NULL, usagestr, opts,
USAGE_NORMAL, USAGE_TO_STDOUT);
exit(129);
} else if (!strcmp(av[1], "--help-all")) {
usage_with_options_internal(NULL, usagestr, opts,
USAGE_FULL, USAGE_TO_STDOUT);
exit(129);
}
}
}


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@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ do
test_expect_code 129 nongit git $cmd -h >usage &&
test_grep "[Uu]sage: git $cmd " usage
'
test_$expect_outcome $prereq "'git $cmd --help-all' outside a repository" '
test_expect_code 129 nongit git $cmd --help-all >usage &&
test_grep "[Uu]sage: git $cmd " usage
'
done

test_done

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@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static void show_usage_if_asked_helper(const char *err, ...)

void show_usage_if_asked(int ac, const char **av, const char *err)
{
if (ac == 2 && !strcmp(av[1], "-h"))
if (ac == 2 && (!strcmp(av[1], "-h") ||
!strcmp(av[1], "--help-all")))
show_usage_if_asked_helper(err);
}