When ‘--help’ is given, just run ‘man’ to show the manual page

I.e. do what git does.  I'm too lazy to keep the builtin help text up
to date :-)

Also add ‘--help’ to various commands that lacked it
(e.g. nix-collect-garbage).

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-hash/Makefile.am b/src/nix-hash/Makefile.am
index a4fdb32462..ef7bb84239 100644
--- a/src/nix-hash/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/nix-hash/Makefile.am
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 bin_PROGRAMS = nix-hash
 
-nix_hash_SOURCES = nix-hash.cc help.txt
+nix_hash_SOURCES = nix-hash.cc
 nix_hash_LDADD = ../libmain/libmain.la ../libstore/libstore.la ../libutil/libutil.la \
  ../boost/format/libformat.la
 
-nix-hash.o: help.txt.hh
-
-%.txt.hh: %.txt
-	../bin2c/bin2c helpText < $< > $@ || (rm $@ && exit 1)
-
 AM_CXXFLAGS = \
  -I$(srcdir)/.. -I$(srcdir)/../libutil -I$(srcdir)/../libstore -I$(srcdir)/../libmain
diff --git a/src/nix-hash/help.txt b/src/nix-hash/help.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c166f4995..0000000000
--- a/src/nix-hash/help.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Usage: nix-hash [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]
-
-`nix-hash' computes and prints cryptographic hashes for the specified
-files.
-
-  --flat: compute hash of regular file contents, not metadata
-  --base32: print hash in base-32 instead of hexadecimal
-  --type HASH: use hash algorithm HASH ("md5" (default), "sha1", "sha256")
-  --truncate: truncate the hash to 160 bits
diff --git a/src/nix-hash/nix-hash.cc b/src/nix-hash/nix-hash.cc
index 5b35ccd9da..af3dda4ad7 100644
--- a/src/nix-hash/nix-hash.cc
+++ b/src/nix-hash/nix-hash.cc
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #include "hash.hh"
 #include "shared.hh"
-#include "help.txt.hh"
 
 #include <iostream>
 
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ using namespace nix;
 
 void printHelp()
 {
-    std::cout << string((char *) helpText);
+    showManPage("nix-hash");
 }