feat: print parent command name in subcommand's usage#20
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| @summary = @description = "sends a friendly welcome message" | ||
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| add_argument "name", description: "the name of the person to greet", required: true | ||
| add_option 'h', "help", description: "sends help information" |
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Also added the help option to the example, as it was referenced, but not actually included, leading to an error if the user ran it.
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Currently, the
usagehelp message only prints the command's name, ignoring its lineage.Suppose you have the following
running
greet welcome --helpcurrently printswhich is incomplete, as the actual usage would be
greet welcome <arguments> [options].This is even more apparent the deeper the command is nested. This PR loops through all parents of the given command and appends their names to the usage message, so the above would become: