Since commit 99caeed05 (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage
without a git dir, 2009-11-09), the git wrapper handles "-h"
specially, skipping any repository setup but still calling
the builtin's cmd_foo() function. This means that every
cmd_foo() must be ready to handle this case, but we don't
have any systematic tests. This led to "git am -h" being
broken for some time without anybody noticing.
This patch just tests that "git foo -h" works for every
builtin, where we see a 129 exit code (the normal code for
our usage() helper), and that the word "usage" appears in
the output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
t/t0012-help.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t0012-help.sh b/t/t0012-help.sh
index 8faba2e8b..487b92a5d 100755
--- a/t/t0012-help.sh
+++ b/t/t0012-help.sh
@@ -49,4 +49,16 @@ test_expect_success "--help does not work for guides" "
test_i18ncmp expect actual
"
+test_expect_success 'generate builtin list' '
+ git --list-builtins >builtins
+'
+
+while read builtin
+do
+ test_expect_success "$builtin can handle -h" '
+ test_expect_code 129 git $builtin -h >output 2>&1 &&
+ test_i18ngrep usage output
+ '
+done <builtins
+
test_done
--
2.13.0.613.g11c956365
