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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2009-11-09 09:05:01 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-11-10 12:00:21 -0800
commit99caeed05d3e89176d352104a2b70a77aa7e5d81 (patch)
treef65515f8b4302877d661176266cd6bf9a75e5a53 /builtin-log.c
parent548d3464dc446db58a8fc8f7a8cc6cfb2d683faa (diff)
downloadgit-99caeed05d3e89176d352104a2b70a77aa7e5d81.tar.gz
Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir
There is no need for "git <command> -h" to depend on being inside a repository. Reported by Gerfried Fuchs through http://bugs.debian.org/462557 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 524850735a..a0fa30c408 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ static void cmd_log_init(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
if (default_date_mode)
rev->date_mode = parse_date_format(default_date_mode);
+ /*
+ * Check for -h before setup_revisions(), or "git log -h" will
+ * fail when run without a git directory.
+ */
+ if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+ usage(builtin_log_usage);
argc = setup_revisions(argc, argv, rev, "HEAD");
if (rev->diffopt.pickaxe || rev->diffopt.filter)