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From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante•net>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:41:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ir51if2y.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bqaujirk.fsf@blue.sea.net


- Remove out call to list_common_cmds_help()
- Send error message to stderr, not stdout.

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante•net>
---
 help.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 1cd33ec..814a8cd 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -185,8 +185,7 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
 
 void help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 {
-	printf("git: '%s' is not a git-command\n\n", cmd);
-	list_common_cmds_help();
+	fprintf(stderr, "git: '%s' is not a git-command. See --help\n\n", cmd);
 	exit(1);
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.2.81.g17ed

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20  8:24 [PATCH] On error, do not list all commands, but point to --help option Jari Aalto
2007-10-20 20:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20 22:28   ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-20 23:02     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-21  2:06       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21  3:24         ` Jeff King
2007-10-21  3:29           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21  6:33             ` Yin Ping
2007-10-21  8:58         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-21 12:42           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-21 13:13             ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-21 14:17               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-24  0:28         ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-10-20 22:41 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2007-10-21  3:33   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-21 10:09     ` Jan Hudec

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