From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:17:28 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Treat "stg --help cmd" and "stg help cmd" like "stg cmd
X-Git-Tag: v0.9~40
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/stgit/commitdiff_plain/31c5abf2374b391eb4353ca3955b5950f0eecd6d

Treat "stg --help cmd" and "stg help cmd" like "stg cmd

User's intention is perfectly clear if "-h", "--help" or "help" is
followed by a valid command - show help for that command.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
---

diff --git a/stgit/main.py b/stgit/main.py
index 2336a43..6d86ee4 100644
--- a/stgit/main.py
+++ b/stgit/main.py
@@ -125,8 +125,12 @@ def main():
     cmd = sys.argv[1]
 
     if cmd in ['-h', '--help', 'help']:
-        print_help()
-        sys.exit(0)
+        if len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[2] in commands:
+            cmd = sys.argv[2]
+            sys.argv[2] = '--help';
+        else:
+            print_help()
+            sys.exit(0)
     if cmd in ['-v', '--version', 'version']:
         print 'Stacked GIT %s' % version
         os.system('git --version')