[options] Add support for infinite retries (Fixes #507)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 872835295cc336a24712d3f93e7f50673da69b2e..1ddbdbc7870c5ede3ca12003482569fabb5051d8 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     downloader.add_option(
         '-R', '--retries',
         dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
-        help='number of retries (default is %default)')
+        help='number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".')
     downloader.add_option(
         '--buffer-size',
         dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024',