podman load: confusing command-line usability

[edsantiago]

There's a confusing and (AFAICT) unused PATH option for podman load:

$ podman load --help
Usage:
  podman load [flags] [PATH]

The man page describes the argument differently, and non-optional:

   podman load name[:tag|@digest]

However, the option seems to be completely ignored. This is especially misleading when a naïve user types podman load foo.tar and it just hangs (waiting for input on stdin).

This one is beyond my ability because I don't know the intention behind this argument.

While you're looking into it, could you also add an isTerminal() check?

[rhatdan]

Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN

[kunalkushwaha]

Ideally the behaviour of podman load should report in both cases.

• podman load <tar-file> i.e. argument without any flag should report error.
• podman load with input from terminal, It should report error.

I can work on this.

/assign

[edsantiago]

@kunalkushwaha Dan is working on it; #2674. Thank you!

[kunalkushwaha]

ohh okay thanks for update :)

[rhatdan]

seems like this is fixed