If you want see the help of sow command from hoe gem. You have a wired output : shingara@slick ~ $ sow -h usage: /usr/bin [-d|-t] [group] project -t = add project to subdir under 'trunk' -d = add project to subdir under 'dev' You must supply a project name on the commandline The usage is bad. If you read in code : /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hoe-1.7.0/bin/sow The usage use the File.dirname($0) like know what command is use. But as it's a extern file that start sow command, there are an error in usage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sow -h 2. 3. Actual Results: shingara@slick ~ $ sow -h usage: /usr/bin [-d|-t] [group] project -t = add project to subdir under 'trunk' -d = add project to subdir under 'dev' You must supply a project name on the commandline Expected Results: shingara@slick ~ $ sow -h usage: /usr/bin/sow [-d|-t] [group] project -t = add project to subdir under 'trunk' -d = add project to subdir under 'dev' You must supply a project name on the commandline
Please file this bug upstream as it should be fixed there. We can't currently fix this in Gentoo since we can't properly patch gems.