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authorFrank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>2007-04-06 23:52:41 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-04-06 16:46:11 -0700
commit7bf77644e70d881f407c77e6d65ebe70c90916d6 (patch)
tree950e714bf2af5b9a9dbc8455a33cb4e95741d8cd /git-cvsimport.perl
parent407049c59e0ac58076664981fde61e606a70686b (diff)
downloadgit-7bf77644e70d881f407c77e6d65ebe70c90916d6.tar.gz
cvsimport: Improve usage error reporting
Actually tell the user what he did wrong in case of usage errors instead of only printing the general usage information. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'git-cvsimport.perl')
-rwxr-xr-xgit-cvsimport.perl10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index d3fbcbc15c..ac74bc51b3 100755
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ $ENV{'TZ'}="UTC";
our ($opt_h,$opt_o,$opt_v,$opt_k,$opt_u,$opt_d,$opt_p,$opt_C,$opt_z,$opt_i,$opt_P, $opt_s,$opt_m,$opt_M,$opt_A,$opt_S,$opt_L, $opt_a);
my (%conv_author_name, %conv_author_email);
-sub usage() {
+sub usage(;$) {
+ my $msg = shift;
+ print(STDERR "Error: $msg\n") if $msg;
print STDERR <<END;
Usage: ${\basename $0} # fetch/update GIT from CVS
[-o branch-for-HEAD] [-h] [-v] [-d CVSROOT] [-A author-conv-file]
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ read_repo_config($opts);
getopts($opts) or usage();
usage if $opt_h;
-@ARGV <= 1 or usage();
+@ARGV <= 1 or usage("You can't specify more than one CVS module");
if ($opt_d) {
$ENV{"CVSROOT"} = $opt_d;
@@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ if ($opt_d) {
} elsif ($ENV{"CVSROOT"}) {
$opt_d = $ENV{"CVSROOT"};
} else {
- die "CVSROOT needs to be set";
+ usage("CVSROOT needs to be set");
}
$opt_o ||= "origin";
$opt_s ||= "-";
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ if ($#ARGV == 0) {
chomp $cvs_tree;
close $f;
} else {
- usage();
+ usage("CVS module has to be specified");
}
our @mergerx = ();