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Clarify help messages for path args to mention datadir prefix

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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.
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James O'Beirne
2018-02-05 17:46:06 -05:00
parent 2a30e67d20
commit a1e13055c2
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src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
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@@ -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);