Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style format

Some new callers would want to use printf-like formatting, when issuing
their usage messages.  An option is to change usage() itself also be like
printf(), which would make it similar to die() and warn().

But usage() is typically fixed, as opposed to die() and warn() that gives
diagnostics depending on the situation.  Indeed, the majority of strings
given by existing callsites to usage() are fixed strings.  If we were to
make usage() take printf-style format, they all need to be changed to have
"%s" as their first argument.

So instead, introduce usagef() so that limited number of callers can use
it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index ef6080338480f509e720a484998c286ae1814b0a..5c596875c2e78a92031915948444971126d91a78 100644 (file)
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ extern char *gitbasename(char *);
 
 /* General helper functions */
 extern NORETURN void usage(const char *err);
+extern NORETURN void usagef(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 extern NORETURN void die(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 extern NORETURN void die_errno(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 extern int error(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));

diff --git a/usage.c b/usage.c
index c488f3afcd6d612e786c13c86241b2a01eb97a2a..e307e01b99ccc55a82040066499ad3651cd2407a 100644 (file)
--- a/usage.c
+++ b/usage.c
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ static void report(const char *prefix, const char *err, va_list params)
        fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", prefix, msg);
 }
 
-static NORETURN void usage_builtin(const char *err)
+static NORETURN void usage_builtin(const char *err, va_list params)
 {
-       fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s\n", err);
+       report("usage: ", err, params);
        exit(129);
 }
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static void warn_builtin(const char *warn, va_list params)
 
 /* If we are in a dlopen()ed .so write to a global variable would segfault
  * (ugh), so keep things static. */
-static NORETURN_PTR void (*usage_routine)(const char *err) = usage_builtin;
+static NORETURN_PTR void (*usage_routine)(const char *err, va_list params) = usage_builtin;
 static NORETURN_PTR void (*die_routine)(const char *err, va_list params) = die_builtin;
 static void (*error_routine)(const char *err, va_list params) = error_builtin;
 static void (*warn_routine)(const char *err, va_list params) = warn_builtin;
@@ -46,9 +46,18 @@ void set_die_routine(NORETURN_PTR void (*routine)(const char *err, va_list param
        die_routine = routine;
 }
 
+void usagef(const char *err, ...)
+{
+       va_list params;
+
+       va_start(params, err);
+       usage_routine(err, params);
+       va_end(params);
+}
+
 void usage(const char *err)
 {
-       usage_routine(err);
+       usagef("%s", err);
 }
 
 void die(const char *err, ...)