fix: make -h an alias for --help on every command#48
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clap's default help arg shows an abbreviated summary for -h and the full help text for --help. Register a global custom help arg with ArgAction::HelpLong instead and disable the default, so both flags print identical output across the root command and every subcommand for all cli-engine consumers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🤖 I have created a release *beep* *boop* --- ## [0.4.3](cli-engine-v0.4.2...cli-engine-v0.4.3) (2026-07-14) ### Bug Fixes * make -h an alias for --help on every command ([#48](#48)) ([9bd7f36](9bd7f36)) ### Miscellaneous * add pull request template ([#46](#46)) ([fe1600d](fe1600d)) --- This PR was generated with [Release Please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please). See [documentation](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please#release-please). Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
-hbut the full text for--help. Registers a global custom help arg (ArgAction::HelpLong) and disables the default inregister_global_flags, so every cli-engine consumer gets identical-h/--helpoutput across the root command and every subcommand for free — no per-app workaround needed.godaddy-clirepo viawith_register_flags; moving it here lets that workaround be dropped.Test plan
cargo test --lib— newshort_and_long_help_flags_render_identical_outputtest passes; only pre-existing unrelated failure (install_zsh_writes_script_and_rc, a sandbox path issue reproducible on cleanmain) remainscargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warningscleancargo fmtcleansemgrep— 0 findings