Merge branch 'sb/show-branch-parse-options'

[git.git] / Documentation / technical / api-parse-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index e30c602f476da2da632d2cd04396d168c80ab233..b43458eae6787caab163fadab113dff61e577498 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
        Introduce a boolean option.
        If used, `int_var` is bitwise-ored with `mask`.
 
+`OPT_NEGBIT(short, long, &int_var, description, mask)`::
+       Introduce a boolean option.
+       If used, `int_var` is bitwise-anded with the inverted `mask`.
+
 `OPT_SET_INT(short, long, &int_var, description, integer)`::
        Introduce a boolean option.
        If used, set `int_var` to `integer`.
@@ -166,6 +170,14 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
 `OPT_ARGUMENT(long, description)`::
        Introduce a long-option argument that will be kept in `argv[]`.
 
+`OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK(&var, description, func_ptr)`::
+       Recognize numerical options like -123 and feed the integer as
+       if it was an argument to the function given by `func_ptr`.
+       The result will be put into `var`.  There can be only one such
+       option definition.  It cannot be negated and it takes no
+       arguments.  Short options that happen to be digits take
+       precedence over it.
+
 
 The last element of the array must be `OPT_END()`.