From 568dc3ab211b1d24fd55899ea4e022a0b20e191f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zoltan Kochan <z@kochan.io>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 12:13:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(licenses): print help when no subcommand is specified
 (#5751)

close #5745
---
 .changeset/rotten-mayflies-enjoy.md                | 6 ++++++
 reviewing/plugin-commands-licenses/src/licenses.ts | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/rotten-mayflies-enjoy.md

diff --git a/.changeset/rotten-mayflies-enjoy.md b/.changeset/rotten-mayflies-enjoy.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..905f9cce8e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/rotten-mayflies-enjoy.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/plugin-commands-licenses": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+`pnpm licenses` should print help, not just an error message [#5745](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/5745).
diff --git a/reviewing/plugin-commands-licenses/src/licenses.ts b/reviewing/plugin-commands-licenses/src/licenses.ts
index 443193f5ceb..ba2facb4536 100644
--- a/reviewing/plugin-commands-licenses/src/licenses.ts
+++ b/reviewing/plugin-commands-licenses/src/licenses.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ export async function handler (
   params: string[] = []
 ) {
   if (params.length === 0) {
-    throw new PnpmError('LICENCES_NO_SUBCOMMAND', 'Please specify the subcommand')
+    throw new PnpmError('LICENCES_NO_SUBCOMMAND', 'Please specify the subcommand', {
+      hint: help(),
+    })
   }
   switch (params[0]) {
   case 'list':