--help option for pdebuild

4 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8997624..b96ea06 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2005-06-04  Junichi Uekawa  <dancer@debian.org>
 
+	* pbuilder.8: document --help option
+
+	* pdebuild.1: document the --help option.
+
+	* pdebuild-checkparams: add --help
+
 	* debian/pbuilder-uml.files: move to uml.
 	* Makefile: install
 	* pdebuild-user-mode-linux: use pdebuild-uml-checkparams
diff --git a/pbuilder.8 b/pbuilder.8
index e96d770..dc58743 100644
--- a/pbuilder.8
+++ b/pbuilder.8
@@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ keep the packages which are required for the version of Debian.
 This is useful when you keep a aptcache directory for each distribution
 and want to keep the size of the aptcache down.
 
+.TP
+.BI "--help"
+
+Show a brief help message.
+
 
 .SH "FILES"
 .TP
diff --git a/pdebuild-checkparams b/pdebuild-checkparams
index 145c034..6cd055f 100644
--- a/pdebuild-checkparams
+++ b/pdebuild-checkparams
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ while [ -n "$1" ]; do
 	    exec 2>&1
 	    shift; shift;
 	    ;;
+	--help)
+	    showhelp
+	    ;;
 	--) # end of processing for this
 	    shift;
 	    break;
diff --git a/pdebuild.1 b/pdebuild.1
index af49267..987e95d 100644
--- a/pdebuild.1
+++ b/pdebuild.1
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ instead of messages coming to the
 standard output.
 
 .TP
+.BI "--help"
+
+Show a brief help message.
+
+.TP
 .BI "-- [" "pbuilder options" "]"
 
 After the