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cli: improve output and consistency for unknown (sub)commands Before this patch, output for invalid top-level and sub-commands differed. For top-level commands, the CLI would print an error-message and a suggestion to use `--help`. For missing *subcommands*, we would hit a different code-path, and different output, which includes full "usage" / "help" output. While it is a common convention to show usage output, and may have been a nice gesture when docker was still young and only had a few commands and options ("you did something wrong; here's an overview of what you can use"), that's no longer the case, and many commands have a _very_ long output. The result of this is that the error message, which is the relevant information in this case - "You mis-typed something" - is lost in the output, and hard to find (sometimes even requiring scrolling back). The output is also confusing, because it _looks_ like something ran successfully (most of the output is not about the error!). Even further; the suggested resolution (try `--help` to see the correct options) is rather redundant, because running teh command with `--help` produces _exactly_ the same output as was just showh, baring the error message. As a fun fact, due to the usage output being printed, the output even contains not one, but _two_ "call to actions"; - `See 'docker volume --help'.` (under the erro message) - `Run 'docker volume COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.` (under the usage output) In short; the output is too verbose, confusing, and doesn't provide a good UX. Let's reduce the output produced so that the focus is on the important information. This patch: - Changes the usage to the short-usage. - Changes the error-message to mention the _full_ command instead of only the command after `docker` (so `docker no-such-command` instead of `no-such-command`). - Prefixes the error message with the binary / root-command name (usually `docker:`); this is something we can still decide on, but it's a pattern we already use in some places. The motivation for this is that `docker` commands can often produce output that's a combination of output from the CLI itself, output from the daemon, and even output from the container. The `docker:` prefix helps to distinguish where the message originated from (the `docker` CLI in this case). - Adds an empty line between the error-message and the "call to action" (`Run 'docker volume --help'...` in the example below). This helps separating the error message ("unkown flag") from the call-to-action. Before this patch: Unknown top-level command: docker nosuchcommand foo docker: 'nosuchcommand' is not a docker command. See 'docker --help' Unknown sub-command: docker volume nosuchcommand foo Usage: docker volume COMMAND Manage volumes Commands: create Create a volume inspect Display detailed information on one or more volumes ls List volumes prune Remove unused local volumes rm Remove one or more volumes update Update a volume (cluster volumes only) Run 'docker volume COMMAND --help' for more information on a command. After this patch: Unknown top-level command: docker nosuchcommand foo docker: unknown command: docker nosuchcommand Run 'docker --help' for more information Unknown sub-command: docker volume nosuchcommand foo docker: unknown command: 'docker volume nosuchcommand' Usage: docker volume COMMAND Run 'docker volume --help' for more information Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
2024-07-04 18:57:07 -04:00
docker: unknown command: docker nonexistent
Run 'docker --help' for more information