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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt2
5 files changed, 85 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 539863b1f9..50f9e9ac17 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -60,12 +60,18 @@ Steps to parse options
. in `cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)`
call
- argc = parse_options(argc, argv, builtin_foo_options, builtin_foo_usage, flags);
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_foo_options, builtin_foo_usage, flags);
+
`parse_options()` will filter out the processed options of `argv[]` and leave the
non-option arguments in `argv[]`.
`argc` is updated appropriately because of the assignment.
+
+You can also pass NULL instead of a usage array as the fifth 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`.
@@ -135,9 +167,22 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
and the result will be put into `var`.
See 'Option Callbacks' below for a more elaborate description.
+`OPT_FILENAME(short, long, &var, description)`::
+ Introduce an option with a filename argument.
+ The filename will be prefixed by passing the filename along with
+ the prefix argument of `parse_options()` to `prefix_filename()`.
+
`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 +215,7 @@ 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()`.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt
index 073b22bd83..c54b17db69 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ struct remote
An array of all of the url_nr URLs configured for the remote
+`pushurl`::
+
+ An array of all of the pushurl_nr push URLs configured for the remote
+
`push`::
An array of refspecs configured for pushing, with
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
index 75aa5d4923..2efe7a40be 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Functions
start_command() followed by finish_command(). Takes a pointer
to a `struct child_process` that specifies the details.
-`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_cd`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`::
+`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`::
Convenience functions that encapsulate a sequence of
start_command() followed by finish_command(). The argument argv
@@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ Functions
Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was
started with start_async().
+`run_hook`::
+
+ Run a hook.
+ The first argument is a pathname to an index file, or NULL
+ if the hook uses the default index file or no index is needed.
+ The second argument is the name of the hook.
+ The further arguments correspond to the hook arguments.
+ The last argument has to be NULL to terminate the arguments list.
+ If the hook does not exist or is not executable, the return
+ value will be zero.
+ If it is executable, the hook will be executed and the exit
+ status of the hook is returned.
+ On execution, .stdout_to_stderr and .no_stdin will be set.
+ (See below.)
+
Data structures
---------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 4242dc0142..7438149249 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ Functions
* Adding data to the buffer
-NOTE: All of these functions in this section will grow the buffer as
- necessary.
+NOTE: All of the functions in this section will grow the buffer as necessary.
+If they fail for some reason other than memory shortage and the buffer hadn't
+been allocated before (i.e. the `struct strbuf` was set to `STRBUF_INIT`),
+then they will free() it.
`strbuf_addch`::
@@ -205,6 +207,13 @@ In order to facilitate caching and to make it possible to give
parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer,
which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
+`strbuf_expand_dict_cb`::
+
+ Used as callback for `strbuf_expand()`, expects an array of
+ struct strbuf_expand_dict_entry as context, i.e. pairs of
+ placeholder and replacement string. The array needs to be
+ terminated by an entry with placeholder set to NULL.
+
`strbuf_addf`::
Add a formatted string to the buffer.
@@ -213,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer.
+
-NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
+NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
`errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`.
`strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the
same behaviour as well.
@@ -228,6 +237,11 @@ same behaviour as well.
Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument
can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs.
+`strbuf_readlink`::
+
+ Read the target of a symbolic link, specified by its path. The third
+ argument can be used to give a hint about the size, to avoid reallocs.
+
`strbuf_getline`::
Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index 6bdf034b3a..48bb97f0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file:
This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6
project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working
-tree. On my Athron 64X2 3800+, after the above:
+tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above:
$ /usr/bin/time git diff-files
1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k