Cli: Subcommand help is not showing

Created on 29 Jan 2015 · 8Comments · Source: urfave/cli

I seem to never be able to get help to print the subcommand help. Looking at the code, I would expect SubcommandHelpTemplate to be used for this, but it is not used anywhere in the code. If stacks is a command with sub commands, it will print the list of subcommands with a command like this: cli stacks help which uses AppHelpTemplate.

In this case however:

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There is no way to get the help for a subcommand.

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khash

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I found out that I can get the subcommand help by doing something like cli stacks help subcommand but find this unintuitive. Should not the help be shown by typing the following?

cli help stacks
cli help stacks subcommand

khash on 29 Jan 2015

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I found out that I can get the subcommand help by doing something like cli stacks help subcommand but find this unintuitive. Should not the help be shown by typing the following?

cli help stacks
cli help stacks subcommand

khash on 29 Jan 2015

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I also feel it's unintuitive that the output for cli help stacks subcommand is not the same as cli stacks help subcommand. Also, assuming stacks has subcommands, cli help stacks doesn't mention the fact, but cli stacks help does.

I spent an hour trying to fix this just now but ran into dependency initialisation loops. I'll have another crack at it at a later date probably.

telyn on 15 Mar 2016

I agree, the same output should be shown for cli help stacks subcommand as cli stacks help subcommand. Thanks for bringing this up!

jszwedko on 20 Mar 2016

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(Note you can also see it via cli stacks subcommand -h)

jszwedko on 20 Mar 2016

I ended up working around this by doing my own global flag parsing, then scanning through looking for any argument called "help". If help, --help or -h were found, then it sticks --help on the end.

I'm no closer to actually fixing the problem though.

telyn on 10 Jun 2016

In case anyone is interested in fixing this issue, I would love to review a PR for ya! ✨

lynncyrin on 25 Aug 2019

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