Bug#992135: Manpage is missing documentation of many command line arguments

David W. Kennedy dave_k at reasoned.us
Thu Aug 12 23:57:29 BST 2021


Package: 0ad
Version: 0.0.23.1-5+b1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Many command line arguments are undocumented in the Debian manpage for 
0ad. Most or all of them are documented in the 0ad README.txt file, so 
it could help speed up the process of updating the manpage. The 
README.txt is available at

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/system/readme.txt

Based on searching the source code for "Args", I found these switches 
that are not documented in the manpage. This list is not exhaustive.

in source/main.cpp:

--rl-interface
--autostart-nonvisual
--unique-logs
--replay-visual

[arguments] (apparently paths of mods to install)

--serializationtest
--rejointest
--ooslog
--hashtest-full
--hashtest-quick

command line arguments to Atlas, the map editor, are in 
ps/GameSetup/Atlas.cpp

in ps/GameSetup/GameSetup.cpp:

--autostart-seed (or is this just an internal name for 
autostart-random=SEED?)
--autostart-disable-replay
--autostart-aiseed
--autostart-team
--autostart-ceasefire
--autostart-aidiff
--autostart-civ
--autostart-victory
--autostart-wonderduration
--autostart-relicduration
--autostart-reliccount
--autostart-player (is this equivalent to autostart-players? Maybe 
substring matching is done on command line switches? autostart-players 
is already documented in the Debian manpage)

-- 
Dave Kennedy



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