stash: recognize "--help" for subcommands
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Wed, 20 May 2015 18:17:46 +0000 (14:17 -0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 20 May 2015 20:47:41 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
If you run "git stash --help", you get the help for stash
(this magic is done by the git wrapper itself). But if you
run "git stash drop --help", you get an error. We
cannot show help specific to "stash drop", of course, but we
can at least give the user the normal stash manpage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-stash.sh
index f540127da3b211250c7a09451726edada71ba8f1..23bd1d3db2a8097e901726add2476dd7090ee337 100755 (executable)
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ save_stash () {
                -a|--all)
                        untracked=all
                        ;;
+               --help)
+                       show_help
+                       ;;
                --)
                        shift
                        break
@@ -307,6 +310,11 @@ show_stash () {
        git diff ${FLAGS:---stat} $b_commit $w_commit
 }
 
+show_help () {
+       exec git help stash
+       exit 1
+}
+
 #
 # Parses the remaining options looking for flags and
 # at most one revision defaulting to ${ref_stash}@{0}
@@ -373,6 +381,9 @@ parse_flags_and_rev()
                        --index)
                                INDEX_OPTION=--index
                        ;;
+                       --help)
+                               show_help
+                       ;;
                        -*)
                                test "$ALLOW_UNKNOWN_FLAGS" = t ||
                                        die "$(eval_gettext "unknown option: \$opt")"