[PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo
From: martin f. krafft <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:40
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
The user ought to be able to call `tg help` from anywhere in the filesystem, not just Git repositories, so the help parsing has to happen before the calls to git git binary. Debian bug: #501982 Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <redacted> --- tg.sh | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tg.sh b/tg.sh
index 4dcc15e..258f8ce 100644
--- a/tg.sh
+++ b/tg.sh@@ -235,12 +235,37 @@ do_help() fi } +# Check whether we are supposed to output the help message +should_do_help() +{ + # we are being sourced for utility functions, never run help + [ -z "$tg__include" ] || return 1 + + local prev + while [ -n "$1" ]; do + case "$1" in + help|--help|-h) + shift + echo "${1:-$prev}" + return 0 + esac + prev="$1" + shift + done + + # run help when there was no previous topic, meaning that there where + # no arguments at all + test -z "$prev" +} ## Startup [ -d "@cmddir@" ] || die "No command directory: '@cmddir@'" +# check if we should run help and get the topic while we're at it +help_topic="$(should_do_help "$@")" && { do_help "$help_topic"; exit 0; } + ## Initial setup set -e
@@ -270,9 +295,6 @@ cmd="$1" shift case "$cmd" in -help|--help|-h) - do_help "$1" - exit 0;; --hooks-path) # Internal command echo "@hooksdir@";;
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tg: (f17218e..) fixes/independent-help (depends on: upstream)