AlDanial
cloc --help not working
Describe the bug
While typing cloc --help it doesn't show the help, it starts hanging. It seems like cloc waiting for input from stdin. First I found this behavior on cloc 1.84, and I upgrade clock to actual 2.02 version, but begavior is the same. To get the help it needed ty type something wrong after cloc --help, like next:
cloc --help aaa
cloc; OS; OS version
- cloc: 2.02
- OS: Windows
- OS version: 10
To Reproduce Type
cloc --help
in command prompt
Expected result Expected that clocl displays it's CLI help page
Before cloc shows the help output it tries to read the optional configuration file which on Windows is under the APPDATA environment variable. Possibly it is getting hung up there. Try running with verbose level 3 to see more information about what's happending:
cloc -v 3 --help
Actually, before that it does a temp install of the Algorithm::Diff module. Another possibility is cloc can't write to the scratch directory. Try explicitly defining a temporary write location with
cloc --sdir C:\TEMP --help
(assuming you have write permission to C:\TEMP). I need to update cloc to do temporary module installs after parsing command line arguments.
Why does the cloc provide different output on a directory that has not changed at all since May 2024? I used versions 1.72, 1.90, 1.94, on the same directory, and each version produces a different output, with different languages listed.
The directory didn't change but cloc did: bug fixes, support for additional languages, parsing improvements.