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Misleading help text for metadata --quiet #8928
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A-cli-help
Area: built-in command-line help
A-documenting-cargo-itself
Area: Cargo's documentation
C-bug
Category: bug
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Hi @jonhoo, can you please share the message that fits this scenario? Thanks |
Hmm, how about:
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Looks good to me. Thanks |
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Updated display message of cargo metadata --help Resolved Issue #8928
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Unify the description of quiet flag cc: #8928 I seem to have missed it.
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Labels
A-cli-help
Area: built-in command-line help
A-documenting-cargo-itself
Area: Cargo's documentation
C-bug
Category: bug
Problem
cargo metadata --quiet
prints to stdout even though--help
saysSteps
cargo metadata --help
cargo metadata --quiet
Possible Solution(s)
Obviously,
--quiet
meant to indicate that no cargo messages are printed to stdout (or maybe stderr) like "Updating index". But, the way it's written, it clearly implies that no output should go to stdout.Notes
Output of
cargo version
: cargo 1.47.0 (f3c7e06 2020-08-28)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: