id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
11842	django-admin.py should display help output when no arguments are given	Jeff Forcier	nobody	"Ticket #378 mentions having `django-admin.py` honor Unix traditions -- and yet if you invoke it with no arguments, you get a profoundly unfriendly and non-Unix-like message:
{{{
$ django-admin.py
Type 'django-admin.py help' for usage.
}}}

Compare to, say, `apt-get`:
{{{
$ apt-get
apt 0.7.9ubuntu17.2 for i386 compiled on Apr 17 2009 16:29:24
Usage: apt-get [options] command
       apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
       apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]

[...]
}}}

or git:
{{{
$ git
usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

[...]
}}}

I'm sure I didn't need to give examples, but I felt like being thorough :)

The code related to this has not changed significantly since the 1.0.X branch -- i.e. the (tiny) patch applies cleanly to the latest 1.0.X branch checkout, as well as the latest SVN.

I'm not seeing any tests that apply to django-admin.py at all, so not including one -- please point me to the right spot if I've missed something."		closed	Core (Management commands)	dev		fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0