[libvirt] [PATCHv2] virsh: tweak help output for VSH_OT_DATA

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue Jun 29 23:48:02 UTC 2010


  On 06/29/2010 07:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609044 complained
> that 'virsh help pool-create-as' didn't document the shortcut
> that you can do 'virsh pool-create-as $name $type --target $target'
> rather than having to supply the four optional source- arguments
> in order to fill out the necessary positional arguments.
>
> This one-liner changes the help output to hopefully make this more obvious:
>
>    NAME
>      pool-create-as - create a pool from a set of args
>
>    SYNOPSIS
>      pool-create-as<name>  [--print-xml]<type>  [<source-host>] [<source-path>] [<source-dev>] [<source-name>] [<target>] [--source-format<string>]
>
>    DESCRIPTION
>      Create a pool.
>
>    OPTIONS
>      [--name]<string>   name of the pool
>      --print-xml      print XML document, but don't define/create
>      [--type]<string>   type of the pool
>      [--source-host]<string>   source-host for underlying storage
>      [--source-path]<string>   source path for underlying storage
>      [--source-dev]<string>   source device for underlying storage
>      [--source-name]<string>   source name for underlying storage
>      [--target]<string>   target for underlying storage
>      --source-format<string>   format for underlying storage
>
> * tools/virsh.c (vshCmddefHelp): Make it more obvious that data
> arguments may, but not must, be specified by option leaders.
> ---
>
> Changed in v2: translate the help string, now that it contains an
> English word and not just a %s.
>
>   tools/virsh.c |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/virsh.c b/tools/virsh.c
> index f1bb295..788f274 100644
> --- a/tools/virsh.c
> +++ b/tools/virsh.c
> @@ -9558,7 +9558,8 @@ vshCmddefHelp(vshControl *ctl, const char *cmdname)
>                   else if (opt->type == VSH_OT_STRING)
>                       snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), _("--%s<string>"), opt->name);
>                   else if (opt->type == VSH_OT_DATA)
> -                    snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "<%s>", opt->name);
> +                    snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), _("[--%s]<string>"),
> +                             opt->name);
>
>                   fprintf(stdout, "    %-15s  %s\n", buf, _(opt->help));
>               }

ACK.




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