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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2014-11-20 10:15:51 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-11-20 10:52:23 -0800
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parentdocs: describe ANSI 256-color mode (diff)
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config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
Most of git-config's command line options use OPT_BIT to choose an action, and then parse the non-option arguments in a context-dependent way. However, --get-color and --get-colorbool are unlike the rest of the options, in that they are OPT_STRING, taking the option name as a parameter. This generally works, because we then use the presence of those strings to set an action bit anyway. But it does mean that the option-parser will continue looking for options even after the key (because it is not a non-option; it is an argument to an option). And running: git config --get-color some.key -1 (to use "-1" as the default color spec) will barf, claiming that "-1" is not an option. Instead, we should treat --get-color and --get-colorbool as action bits, just like --add, --get, and all the other actions, and then check that the non-option arguments we got are sane. This fixes the weirdness above, and makes those two options like all the others. This "fixes" a test in t4026, which checked that feeding "-2" as a color should fail (it does fail, but prior to this patch, because parseopt barfed, not because we actually ever tried to parse the color). This also catches other errors, like: git config --get-color some.key black blue which previously silently ignored "blue" (and now will complain that you gave too many arguments). There are some possible regressions, though. We now disallow these, which currently do what you would expect: # specifying other options after the action git config --get-color some.key --file whatever # using long-arg syntax git config --get-color=some.key However, we have never advertised these in the documentation, and in fact they did not work in some older versions of git. The behavior was apparently switched as an accidental side effect of d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to use parseopt, 2009-02-21). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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