(usage): Mention --help and --version.

(main): Handle flag_help and flag_version before checking for invocation errors.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index f3a7c0a97..830861d0e 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -258,15 +258,15 @@ main (argc, argv)
 	}
     }
 
-  if (flag_hard_link && flag_symbolic_link)
-    usage ("cannot make both hard and symbolic links");
-
   if (flag_version)
     fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", version_string);
 
   if (flag_help)
     usage (NULL);
 
+  if (flag_hard_link && flag_symbolic_link)
+    usage ("cannot make both hard and symbolic links");
+
   if (make_backups)
     backup_type = get_version (version);