From a1e13055c2c57913d8d57ca0978cef2fec1e6148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James O'Beirne Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:46:06 -0500 Subject: Clarify help messages for path args to mention datadir prefix Change `-conf`'s and others' help messages to indicate that relative path values will be prefixed by the datadir path. This behavior is confusing when attempting to specify a configuration file in the current directory with `-conf=bitcoin.conf`, but loading the `bitcoin.conf` file in ~/.bitcoin datadir. --- src/bitcoin-cli.cpp | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/bitcoin-cli.cpp') 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=", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME)); + strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME)); strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-datadir=", _("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); -- cgit v1.2.3