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-rw-r--r--parse-options.c12
-rw-r--r--t/helper/test-parse-options.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0040-parse-options.sh2
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index f8a155ee13..817416db99 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -1109,6 +1109,7 @@ static enum parse_opt_result usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t
for (; opts->type != OPTION_END; opts++) {
size_t pos;
int pad;
+ const char *cp, *np;
if (opts->type == OPTION_SUBCOMMAND)
continue;
@@ -1157,7 +1158,16 @@ static enum parse_opt_result usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t
(const char *)opts->value);
continue;
}
- fprintf(outfile, "%*s%s\n", pad + USAGE_GAP, "", _(opts->help));
+
+ for (cp = _(opts->help); *cp; cp = np) {
+ np = strchrnul(cp, '\n');
+ fprintf(outfile,
+ "%*s%.*s\n", pad + USAGE_GAP, "",
+ (int)(np - cp), cp);
+ if (*np)
+ np++;
+ pad = USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH;
+ }
}
fputc('\n', outfile);
diff --git a/t/helper/test-parse-options.c b/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
index 00fa281a9c..a4f6e24b0c 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ int cmd__parse_options(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_STRING(0, "st", &string, "st", "get another string (pervert ordering)"),
OPT_STRING('o', NULL, &string, "str", "get another string"),
OPT_NOOP_NOARG(0, "obsolete"),
+ OPT_SET_INT_F(0, "longhelp", &integer, "help text of this entry\n"
+ "spans multiple lines", 0, PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "list", &list, "str", "add str to list"),
OPT_GROUP("Magic arguments"),
OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK(&integer, "set integer to NUM",
diff --git a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
index 7d7ecfd571..83e5d4eeb6 100755
--- a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
+++ b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ String options
--string2 <str> get another string
--st <st> get another string (pervert ordering)
-o <str> get another string
+ --longhelp help text of this entry
+ spans multiple lines
--list <str> add str to list
Magic arguments