From 109afe5d319d4dca2d96bb8fcd50f00663d8193b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Gautier <mgautier@kymeria.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:19:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Give the user a change to get help before failing because of
 missing magic.

---
 src/zimwriterfs/zimwriterfs.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/zimwriterfs/zimwriterfs.cpp b/src/zimwriterfs/zimwriterfs.cpp
index 6027872d..81ff9d20 100644
--- a/src/zimwriterfs/zimwriterfs.cpp
+++ b/src/zimwriterfs/zimwriterfs.cpp
@@ -488,6 +488,8 @@ void create_zim(const zim::Metadata& metadata)
 /* Main program entry point */
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
+  parse_args(argc, argv);
+
   /* Init */
   magic = magic_open(MAGIC_MIME);
   if (magic_load(magic, NULL) != 0) {
@@ -499,8 +501,6 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
   pthread_mutex_init(&verboseMutex, NULL);
 
   try {
-    parse_args(argc, argv);
-
     const zim::Metadata metadata = makeMetadata();
 
     if ( !checkMetadata(metadata) ) {