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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2015-02-05 14:03:59 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-02-07 18:52:45 +0000
commitec3378f3a7013e289daa0f5c52329488b861f99c (patch)
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devtool: improve command-line help
Based on feedback from Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/devtool')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/devtool18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/devtool b/scripts/devtool
index d6e1b9710d..981ff515d3 100755
--- a/scripts/devtool
+++ b/scripts/devtool
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ def read_workspace():
break
def create_workspace(args, config, basepath, workspace):
- if args.directory:
- workspacedir = os.path.abspath(args.directory)
+ if args.layerpath:
+ workspacedir = os.path.abspath(args.layerpath)
else:
workspacedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(basepath, 'workspace'))
_create_workspace(workspacedir, config, basepath, args.create_only)
@@ -177,18 +177,20 @@ def main():
pth = os.path.dirname(pth)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded development tool",
- epilog="Use %(prog)s <command> --help to get help on a specific command")
+ epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command")
parser.add_argument('--basepath', help='Base directory of SDK / build directory')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug output', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', help='Print only errors', action='store_true')
- parser.add_argument('--color', help='Colorize output', choices=['auto', 'always', 'never'], default='auto')
+ parser.add_argument('--color', choices=['auto', 'always', 'never'], default='auto', help='Colorize output (where %(metavar)s is %(choices)s)', metavar='COLOR')
- subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="subparser_name")
+ subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="subparser_name", title='subcommands', metavar='<subcommand>')
if not context.fixed_setup:
- parser_create_workspace = subparsers.add_parser('create-workspace', help='Set up a workspace')
- parser_create_workspace.add_argument('directory', nargs='?', help='Directory for the workspace')
- parser_create_workspace.add_argument('--create-only', action="store_true", help='Only create the workspace, do not alter configuration')
+ parser_create_workspace = subparsers.add_parser('create-workspace',
+ help='Set up a workspace',
+ description='Sets up a new workspace. NOTE: other devtool subcommands will create a workspace automatically as needed, so you only need to use %(prog)s if you want to specify where the workspace should be located.')
+ parser_create_workspace.add_argument('layerpath', nargs='?', help='Path in which the workspace layer should be created')
+ parser_create_workspace.add_argument('--create-only', action="store_true", help='Only create the workspace layer, do not alter configuration')
parser_create_workspace.set_defaults(func=create_workspace)
scriptutils.load_plugins(logger, plugins, os.path.join(scripts_path, 'lib', 'devtool'))