Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] man pages: update the description for the virsh help command

On 12/02/2010 06:04 AM, Justin Clift wrote: Hmm, this doesn't quite match 'virsh help help', which if used literally would translate to: =item B<help> optional I<command> I<group> On the other hand, I'm thinking we implemented the help command slightly wrong by specifying that it takes two optional strings. Really, it only takes one optional string, which is a command-or-group. For instance, with the current code, 'virsh help --group help' lists a command help, rather than a group help, and 'virsh help --command virsh' lists the group help, rather than a command help. Meanwhile, 'virsh help help virsh' is accepted by the parser, but silently ignores the virsh group argument. So I'm thinking we need yet another patch to virsh.c that reduces opts_help to just one VSH_OT_DATA flag name (whether we keep it named --command, or rename it to --command-or-group, is another question, which is also impacted by whether we decide to implement unambiguous prefix parsing like getopt_long). In the meantime, how about we list this line as: =item B<help> optional I<command-or-group> ACK with that one-line change; the rest of the patch is uncontroversial, and the virsh.c cleanup can be a separate patch. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org