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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 3/3] qemu-img: print short help on getopt fai


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 3/3] qemu-img: print short help on getopt failure
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:59 +0100
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On 21.03.2017 23:15, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 06:45:41PM +0800, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Printing the full help output obscures the error message for an invalid
>> command-line option or missing argument.
>>
>> Before this patch:
>>
>>   $ ./qemu-img --foo
>>   ...pages of output...
> 
> That gives me:
> 
>     $ qemu-img --foo
>     qemu-img: unrecognized option '--foo'

Yes, before this series. But not before this patch (i.e. after the first
two patches of this series).

Max

> 
> I think you meant any one of the `qemu-img create|convert|... --foo`:
> 
>     $ qemu-img create --foo
>     [...]
> 
> Which _does_ give "pages of output".
> 
> Just noting if you want to tweak the commit message.
> 
>> After this patch:
>>
>>   $ ./qemu-img --foo
>>   qemu-img: unrecognized option '--foo'
>>   Try 'qemu-img --help' for more information
>>
> 
> [...]
> 


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