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bug #28786: cvs <command> --help return an error message if CVSROOT is not specified

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Sun 31 Jan 2010 07:23:15 PM UTC  
 
Category: Bug ReportSeverity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Fixed Release: NoneFixed Feature Release: None

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Mon 01 Feb 2010 01:09:39 AM UTC, comment #1:

The command

cvs <command> --help

is not a legal command.

The commands:

cvs --help

and

cvs -H <command>

will do what you suggest.

The only reason you get any output at all from 'cvs <command> --help' is
that you are also getting a '<command>: invalid option -- -' output at
the top before it trys to tell you what options you might have mistyped.
To do that, you must first have been able to properly process the global
options needed for <command> to work properly.

Mark D. Baushke <mdb>
Project Administrator
Sun 31 Jan 2010 07:23:15 PM UTC, original submission:

I would expect that `cvs <any-command> --help` would return the help text in any situation.

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      StatusNone=>Wont Fix
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