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| author |  Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> | 2016-05-05 15:20:00 +0530 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-05 11:52:45 -0700 |
| commit | e0070e8bd575c069ddc0a469c43076290210e79e (patch) | |
| tree | 54ff252021d88db7d85875ec1b8edcac923ad866 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | t/t7507: improve test coverage (diff) | |
| download | tgif-e0070e8bd575c069ddc0a469c43076290210e79e.tar.xz | |
parse-options.c: make OPTION_COUNTUP respect "unspecified" values
OPT_COUNTUP() merely increments the counter upon --option, and resets it
to 0 upon --no-option, which means that there is no "unspecified" value
with which a client can initialize the counter to determine whether or
not --[no]-option was seen at all.
Make OPT_COUNTUP() treat any negative number as an "unspecified" value
to address this shortcoming. In particular, if a client initializes the
counter to -1, then if it is still -1 after parse_options(), then
neither --option nor --no-option was seen; if it is 0, then --no-option
was seen last, and if it is 1 or greater, than --option was seen last.
This change does not affect the behavior of existing clients because
they all use the initial value of 0 (or more).
Note that builtin/clean.c initializes the variable used with
OPT__FORCE (which uses OPT_COUNTUP()) to a negative value, but it is set
to either 0 or 1 by reading the configuration before the code calls
parse_options(), i.e. as far as parse_options() is concerned, the
initial value of the variable is not negative.
To test this behavior, in test-parse-options.c, "verbose" is set to
"unspecified" while quiet is set to 0 which will test the new behavior
with all sets of values.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 695bd4bf43..27bd701c0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -144,8 +144,12 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: `OPT_COUNTUP(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: Introduce a count-up option. - `int_var` is incremented on each use of `--option`, and - reset to zero with `--no-option`. + Each use of `--option` increments `int_var`, starting from zero + (even if initially negative), and `--no-option` resets it to + zero. To determine if `--option` or `--no-option` was encountered at + all, initialize `int_var` to a negative value, and if it is still + negative after parse_options(), then neither `--option` nor + `--no-option` was seen. `OPT_BIT(short, long, &int_var, description, mask)`:: Introduce a boolean option. |