When called with a single path, require conflict markers

Fixes #585

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ annotations in Haskell.
 Fixed a rare crash when the last non-blank line had changes for
 certain parsers, particularly YAML.
 
+### Command Line Interface
+
+Difftastic now errors if given a single path, unless that file
+contains conflict markers. Previously this was a warning.
+
 ### Build
 
 Difftastic now requires Rust 1.63 to build.

src/main.rs

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ extern crate log;
 use display::style::print_warning;
 use log::info;
 use mimalloc::MiMalloc;
+use options::USAGE;
 
 use crate::conflicts::apply_conflict_markers;
 use crate::conflicts::START_LHS_MARKER;
@@ -406,13 +407,14 @@ fn diff_conflicts_file(
     };
 
     if conflict_files.num_conflicts == 0 {
-        print_warning(
+        eprintln!(
-            &format!(
+            "error: Difftastic requires two paths, or a single file with conflict markers {}.\n",
-                "Expected a file with conflict markers {}, but none were found. See --help for usage instructions.",
+            START_LHS_MARKER,
-                START_LHS_MARKER,
-            ),
-            display_options,
         );
+
+        eprintln!("USAGE:\n\n    {}\n", USAGE);
+        eprintln!("For more information try --help");
+        std::process::exit(EXIT_BAD_ARGUMENTS);
     }
 
     let lhs_name = match conflict_files.lhs_name {

src/options.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub(crate) const DEFAULT_PARSE_ERROR_LIMIT: usize = 0;
 
 pub(crate) const DEFAULT_TAB_WIDTH: usize = 8;
 
-const USAGE: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_BIN_NAME"), " [OPTIONS] OLD-PATH NEW-PATH");
+pub(crate) const USAGE: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_BIN_NAME"), " [OPTIONS] OLD-PATH NEW-PATH");
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub(crate) enum ColorOutput {