git-repo/release
Mike Frysinger 56345c345b repo: refactor help output handling
Currently we have the behavior:
* `repo`: Equivalent to `repo help` -- only shows common subcommands
  (with short description), and then exits 0.
* `repo --help`: Shows repo's core options, lists all commands (no
  specific info), and then exits 0.

The first case is not behaving well:
* If you run `repo` without a specific subcommand, that's an error,
  so we should be exiting 1 instead.
* Showing only subcommands and no actual option summary makes it seem
  like repo itself doesn't take any options.  This confuses users.

Let's rework things a bit.  Now we have the behavior:
* `repo`: Shows repo's core options, lists all commands (no specific
  info), and then exits 1.
* `repo --help`: Shows repo's core options, shows common subcommands
  (with short description), and then exits 0.
* `repo --help-all`: Shows repo's core options, shows all subcommands
  (with short description), and then exits 0.

Basically we swap the behavior of `repo` and `repo --help`, and fix
the exit status when the subcommand is missing.

The addition of --help-all is mostly for the man pages.  We were
relying on `repo help --all` to generate the repo(1) man page, but
that too omitted the core repo options.  Now the man page includes
all the core repo options and provides a summary of all commands.

Change-Id: I1f99b99d5b8af2591f96a078d0647a3d76d6b0fc
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/312908
Reviewed-by: Xin Li <delphij@google.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>
2021-07-28 05:38:34 +00:00
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README.md release: import some helper scripts for managing official releases 2020-02-21 05:20:58 +00:00
sign-launcher.py release: import some helper scripts for managing official releases 2020-02-21 05:20:58 +00:00
sign-tag.py release-process: document schedule (including freezes) publicly 2020-07-23 08:07:38 +00:00
update-manpages repo: refactor help output handling 2021-07-28 05:38:34 +00:00
util.py release: import some helper scripts for managing official releases 2020-02-21 05:20:58 +00:00

These are helper tools for managing official releases. See the release process document for more details.