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author | 2009-05-25 00:59:07 -0700 | |
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committer | 2009-05-25 00:59:07 -0700 | |
commit | ee969693c5e77e1b5ebda45bead569806d31b379 (patch) | |
tree | 25d803cd17cbe891a9937f3e3442a1d7863ae773 /Documentation/technical | |
parent | apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint' (diff) | |
download | tgif-ee969693c5e77e1b5ebda45bead569806d31b379.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'master' into sb/opt-filename
* master: (654 commits)
http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free
t/t3400-rebase.sh: add more tests to help migrating git-rebase.sh to C
post-receive-email: hooks.showrev: show how to include both web link and patch
MinGW: Fix compiler warning in merge-recursive
MinGW: Add a simple getpass()
MinGW: use POSIX signature of waitpid()
MinGW: the path separator to split GITPERLLIB is ';' on Win32
MinGW: Scan for \r in addition to \n when reading shbang lines
gitweb: Sanitize title attribute in format_subject_html
Terminate argv with NULL before calling setup_revisions()
doc/git-rebase.txt: remove mention of multiple strategies
git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files
git-svn: add --authors-prog option
git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile if it is passed to git svn clone
git-svn: Correctly report max revision when following deleted paths
git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago
git-svn testsuite: use standard configuration for Subversion tools
grep: fix word-regexp colouring
completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos
Cope better with a _lot_ of packs
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 42 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 539863b1f9..b43458eae6 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ Steps to parse options non-option arguments in `argv[]`. `argc` is updated appropriately because of the assignment. + +You can also pass NULL instead of a usage array as fourth parameter of +parse_options(), to avoid displaying a help screen with usage info and +option list. This should only be done if necessary, e.g. to implement +a limited parser for only a subset of the options that needs to be run +before the full parser, which in turn shows the full help message. ++ Flags are the bitwise-or of: `PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH`:: @@ -77,6 +83,28 @@ Flags are the bitwise-or of: Using this flag, processing is stopped at the first non-option argument. +`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0`:: + Keep the first argument, which contains the program name. It's + removed from argv[] by default. + +`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN`:: + Keep unknown arguments instead of erroring out. This doesn't + work for all combinations of arguments as users might expect + it to do. E.g. if the first argument in `--unknown --known` + takes a value (which we can't know), the second one is + mistakenly interpreted as a known option. Similarly, if + `PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION` is set, the second argument in + `--unknown value` will be mistakenly interpreted as a + non-option, not as a value belonging to the unknown option, + the parser early. That's why parse_options() errors out if + both options are set. + +`PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP`:: + By default, parse_options() handles `-h`, `--help` and + `--help-all` internally, by showing a help screen. This option + turns it off and allows one to add custom handlers for these + options, or to just leave them unknown. + Data Structure -------------- @@ -109,6 +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`. @@ -138,6 +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()`. @@ -170,7 +210,7 @@ The function must be defined in this form: The callback mechanism is as follows: -* Inside `funct`, the only interesting member of the structure +* Inside `func`, the only interesting member of the structure given by `opt` is the void pointer `opt->value`. `\*opt->value` will be the value that is saved into `var`, if you use `OPT_CALLBACK()`. |