help: introduce option --exclude-guides

Introduce option --exclude-guides to the help command.  With this option
being passed, "git help" will open man pages only for actual commands.

Since we know it is a command, we can use function help_unknown_command
to give the user advice on typos.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='help'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+configure_help () {
+	test_config help.format html &&
+
+	# Unless the path has "://" in it, Git tries to make sure
+	# the documentation directory locally exists. Avoid it as
+	# we are only interested in seeing an attempt to correctly
+	# invoke a help browser in this test.
+	test_config help.htmlpath test://html &&
+
+	# Name a custom browser
+	test_config browser.test.cmd ./test-browser &&
+	test_config help.browser test
+}
+
+test_expect_success "setup" '
+	# Just write out which page gets requested
+	write_script test-browser <<-\EOF
+	echo "$*" >test-browser.log
+	EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success "works for commands and guides by default" '
+	configure_help &&
+	git help status &&
+	echo "test://html/git-status.html" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect test-browser.log &&
+	git help revisions &&
+	echo "test://html/gitrevisions.html" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect test-browser.log
+'
+
+test_expect_success "--exclude-guides does not work for guides" '
+	>test-browser.log &&
+	test_must_fail git help --exclude-guides revisions &&
+	test_must_be_empty test-browser.log
+'
+
+test_done