author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | |
Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:32:16 +0000 (17:32 -0600) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Tue, 7 Dec 2010 22:19:32 +0000 (14:19 -0800) | ||
commit | b0b3a8b666ac9bcab93c9b05ca7de918d7fa18bc | |
tree | 6f895828110cfc453744bde29f7f58ce3244b983 | tree | snapshot |
parent | b57c68a69e028cc41eb01404dc4446a463c0e464 | commit | diff |
parse-options: allow git commands to invent new option types
parse-options provides a variety of option behaviors, including
OPTION_CALLBACK, which should take care of just about any sane
behavior. All supported behaviors obey the following constraint:
A --foo option can only accept (and base its behavior on)
one argument, which would be the following command-line
argument in the "unsticked" form.
Alas, some existing git commands have options that do not obey that
constraint. For example, update-index --cacheinfo takes three
arguments, and update-index --resolve takes all later parameters as
arguments.
Introduces an OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK backdoor to parse-options so
such option types can be supported without tempting inventors of other
commands through mention in the public API. Commands can set the
callback field to a function accepting three arguments: the option
parsing context, the option itself, and a flag indicating whether the
the option was negated. When the option is encountered, that function
is called to take over from get_value(). The return value should be
zero for success, -1 for usage errors.
Thanks to Stephen Boyd for API guidance.
Improved-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
parse-options provides a variety of option behaviors, including
OPTION_CALLBACK, which should take care of just about any sane
behavior. All supported behaviors obey the following constraint:
A --foo option can only accept (and base its behavior on)
one argument, which would be the following command-line
argument in the "unsticked" form.
Alas, some existing git commands have options that do not obey that
constraint. For example, update-index --cacheinfo takes three
arguments, and update-index --resolve takes all later parameters as
arguments.
Introduces an OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK backdoor to parse-options so
such option types can be supported without tempting inventors of other
commands through mention in the public API. Commands can set the
callback field to a function accepting three arguments: the option
parsing context, the option itself, and a flag indicating whether the
the option was negated. When the option is encountered, that function
is called to take over from get_value(). The return value should be
zero for success, -1 for usage errors.
Thanks to Stephen Boyd for API guidance.
Improved-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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