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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2019-07-02 12:42:29 -0400
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2019-07-02 12:28:21 -0400
commitfab0c820fa4c0c3227eec85c64310a3bf938a149 (patch)
tree651d630b35cbe9e3aff6759829c32f9077ee9c54 /src
parent2f717fb5cdfc312784f9c1539fc41cdfcfbde452 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-fab0c820fa4c0c3227eec85c64310a3bf938a149.tar.xz
rpc: Clarify that block count means height excl genesis
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/rpc/blockchain.cpp10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
index 9f3748cb65..743efc1e65 100644
--- a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
#include <core_io.h>
#include <hash.h>
#include <index/blockfilterindex.h>
-#include <key_io.h>
#include <policy/feerate.h>
#include <policy/policy.h>
#include <policy/rbf.h>
@@ -42,9 +41,9 @@
#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp> // boost::thread::interrupt
+#include <condition_variable>
#include <memory>
#include <mutex>
-#include <condition_variable>
struct CUpdatedBlock
{
@@ -169,7 +168,8 @@ static UniValue getblockcount(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() != 0)
throw std::runtime_error(
RPCHelpMan{"getblockcount",
- "\nReturns the number of blocks in the longest blockchain.\n",
+ "\nReturns the height of the most-work fully-validated chain.\n"
+ "The genesis block has height 0.\n",
{},
RPCResult{
"n (numeric) The current block count\n"
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static UniValue getbestblockhash(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() != 0)
throw std::runtime_error(
RPCHelpMan{"getbestblockhash",
- "\nReturns the hash of the best (tip) block in the longest blockchain.\n",
+ "\nReturns the hash of the best (tip) block in the most-work fully-validated chain.\n",
{},
RPCResult{
"\"hex\" (string) the block hash, hex-encoded\n"
@@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ UniValue getblockchaininfo(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
RPCResult{
"{\n"
" \"chain\": \"xxxx\", (string) current network name as defined in BIP70 (main, test, regtest)\n"
- " \"blocks\": xxxxxx, (numeric) the current number of blocks processed in the server\n"
+ " \"blocks\": xxxxxx, (numeric) the height of the most-work fully-validated chain. The genesis block has height 0\n"
" \"headers\": xxxxxx, (numeric) the current number of headers we have validated\n"
" \"bestblockhash\": \"...\", (string) the hash of the currently best block\n"
" \"difficulty\": xxxxxx, (numeric) the current difficulty\n"