From 56a4f6edaa6ae7d8f3d3cec37dc48d7f30c2ffce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sally O'Malley <somalley@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 10:22:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] kubectl: remove usage info from bad flag error msg

Kubernetes-commit: e36dc3adb4045373eefc002e4afe5298ec715ce9
---
 pkg/util/templates/templater.go | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/util/templates/templater.go b/pkg/util/templates/templater.go
index a7036f0ec6dd1..18901348acb4b 100644
--- a/pkg/util/templates/templater.go
+++ b/pkg/util/templates/templater.go
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ func ActsAsRootCommand(cmd *cobra.Command, filters []string, groups ...CommandGr
 		CommandGroups: groups,
 		Filtered:      filters,
 	}
+	cmd.SetFlagErrorFunc(templater.FlagErrorFunc())
 	cmd.SetUsageFunc(templater.UsageFunc())
 	cmd.SetHelpFunc(templater.HelpFunc())
 	return templater
@@ -66,6 +67,18 @@ type templater struct {
 	Filtered []string
 }
 
+func (templater *templater) FlagErrorFunc(exposedFlags ...string) func(*cobra.Command, error) error {
+	return func(c *cobra.Command, err error) error {
+		c.SilenceUsage = true
+		switch c.CalledAs() {
+		case "options":
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s\nRun '%s' without flags.", err, c.CommandPath())
+		default:
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s\nSee '%s --help' for usage.", err, c.CommandPath())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func (templater *templater) ExposeFlags(cmd *cobra.Command, flags ...string) FlagExposer {
 	cmd.SetUsageFunc(templater.UsageFunc(flags...))
 	return templater