New functionality in hack/man-page-checker: start cross-
referencing the man page 'Synopsis' line against the
output of 'podman foo --help'. This is part 1, flag/option
consistency. Part 2 (arg consistency) is too big and will
have to wait for later.
flag/option consistency means: if 'podman foo --help'
includes the string '[flags]' in the Usage message,
make sure the man page includes '[*options*]' in its
Synopsis line, and vice-versa. This found several
inconsistencies, which I've fixed.
While doing this I realized that Cobra automatically
includes a 'Flags:' subsection in its --help output
for all subcommands that have defined flags. This
is great - it lets us cross-check against the
usage synopsis, and make sure that '[flags]' is
present or absent as needed, without fear of
human screwups. If a flag-less subcommand ever
gets extended with flags, but the developer forgets
to add '[flags]' and remove DisableFlagsInUseLine,
we now have a test that will catch that. (This,
too, caught two instances which I fixed).
I don't actually know if the new man-page-checker
functionality will work in CI: I vaguely recall that
it might run before 'make podman' does; and also
vaguely recall that some steps were taken to remedy
that.
Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
...plus a few others. And fixes to actual parsing.
If a command's usage message includes '...' in the
argument list, assume it can take unlimited arguments.
Nothing we can check.
For all others, though, the ALL-CAPS part on the
right-hand side of the usage message will define
an upper bound on the number of arguments accepted
by the command. So in our 'podman --help' test,
generate N+1 args and run that command. We expect
a 125 exit status and a suitably helpful error message.
Not all podman commands or subcommands were checking,
so I fixed that. And, fixed some broken usage messages
(all-caps FLAGS, and '[flags]' at the end of 'ARGS').
Add new checks to the help test to prevent those in
the future.
Plus a little refactoring/cleanup where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
Ed Santiago
Brent Baude