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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2018-02-06 16:00:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2018-02-06 16:14:12 +0100 |
| commit | f6cd41d93e121466a1b7481324c47c3973d1ede0 (patch) | |
| tree | db5a49a1cf02e8435a5b633ce1e3d270db05dc4c /src/bitcoin-cli.cpp | |
| parent | 88971352f6106d87156188cc0e29077baa05b86d (diff) | |
| parent | 54604600c3de6cb18540c0911127173f68ad246c (diff) | |
Merge #12305: [docs] [refactor] Add help messages for datadir path mangling
5460460 Add AbsPathForConfigVal to consolidate datadir prefixing for path args (James O'Beirne)
a1e1305 Clarify help messages for path args to mention datadir prefix (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
Change `-conf`'s help message to indicate that relative path values will be prefixed by the datadir path. This behavior probably merits clarification; it's kind of confusing when attempting to specify a configuration file in the current directory with `-conf=bitcoin.conf`, but instead loading the `bitcoin.conf` file in ~/.bitcoin datadir.
### Edit
This PR has been modified to document all cases where relative path configurations are modified to be under datadir. A small refactoring has also been added which consolidates this normalization.
Tree-SHA512: be4fc0595fbeba33d17af08f59898af45e76a44f00719ea0282403b155ac6755584604fab765250a3aa14ed6991882c4d1ccbe601184362c5ba97c886bdda344
Diffstat (limited to 'src/bitcoin-cli.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/bitcoin-cli.cpp | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp index 1214b548cf..8fc708be6b 100644 --- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp +++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ std::string HelpMessageCli() std::string strUsage; strUsage += HelpMessageGroup(_("Options:")); strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-?", _("This help message")); - strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=<file>", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME)); + strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=<file>", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME)); strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-datadir=<dir>", _("Specify data directory")); strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-getinfo", _("Get general information from the remote server. Note that unlike server-side RPC calls, the results of -getinfo is the result of multiple non-atomic requests. Some entries in the result may represent results from different states (e.g. wallet balance may be as of a different block from the chain state reported)")); AppendParamsHelpMessages(strUsage); |