[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Improve --help switch output for pacman utils

Jason St. John jstjohn at purdue.edu
Mon Sep 2 16:52:44 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 23/07/13 11:27, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 22/07/13 11:09, Jason St. John wrote:
>>> Unify the formatting of the --help switch for pacman utils.
>>> All of the pacman utils will now output help text using the following
>>> format:
>>>
>>>   util-name (pacman) v<pacman version>
>>>
>>>   one line description of util's purpose
>>>
>>>   Usage: util-name [options]
>>>
>>>     -b, --bar      whatever --bar does
>>>     -f, --foo      whatever --foo does
>>>     -h, --help     display this help message
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Karol Błażewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu>
>>> ---
>>> This commit should address the issues raised by Karol Błażewicz in this mail:
>>> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-June/017391.html
>>>
>>
>> Looks fine.   Query for everyone below:
>>
>>>  src/util/cleanupdelta.c |  9 ++++-----
>>>  src/util/pacsort.c      |  5 +++--
>>>  src/util/pactree.c      |  7 ++++---
>>>  src/util/testdb.c       | 12 +++++-------
>>>  src/util/testpkg.c      |  6 +++---
>>>  src/util/vercmp.c       | 17 +++++++++--------
>>>  6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/util/cleanupdelta.c b/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>>> index 4f34435..b13d770 100644
>>> --- a/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>>> +++ b/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>>> @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
>>>  #include <alpm.h>
>>>  #include <alpm_list.h>
>>>
>>> -#define BASENAME "cleanupdelta"
>>> -
>>
>> It looks like we defined this in dea9b3bc when we stopped using basename
>> to output the program name.   Given it is only ever used in one place,
>> is there any reason to keep it?
>
> Ping on this question.
>
> (and lesson for everyone - the more minimal your changes in a patch, the
> more chance it gets accepted quickly...)
>
>
>

Should I resubmit this with the BASENAME change done in a separate
patch? Or should I resubmit with each file done in a separate patch?

Jason


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