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rev-parse --parseopt: option argument name hints
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Built-in commands can specify names for option arguments when usage text
is generated for a command.  sh based commands should be able to do the
same.

Option argument name hint is any text that comes after [*=?!] after the
argument name up to the first whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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34 changes: 32 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
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Expand Up @@ -284,13 +284,13 @@ Input Format

'git rev-parse --parseopt' input format is fully text based. It has two parts,
separated by a line that contains only `--`. The lines before the separator
(should be more than one) are used for the usage.
(should be one or more) are used for the usage.
The lines after the separator describe the options.

Each line of options has this format:

------------
<opt_spec><flags>* SP+ help LF
<opt_spec><flags>*<arg_hint>? SP+ help LF
------------

`<opt_spec>`::
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* Use `!` to not make the corresponding negated long option available.

`<arg_hint>`::
`<arg_hint>`, if specified, is used as a name of the argument in the
help output, for options that take arguments. `<arg_hint>` is
terminated by the first whitespace. When you need to use space in the
argument hint use dash instead.

The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used
as the help associated to the option.

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foo some nifty option --foo
bar= some cool option --bar with an argument
baz=arg another cool option --baz with a named argument
qux?path qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself

An option group Header
C? option C with an optional argument"

eval "$(echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?)"
------------


Usage text
~~~~~~~~~~

When `"$@"` is `-h` or `--help` in the above example, the following
usage text would be shown:

------------
usage: some-command [options] <args>...

some-command does foo and bar!

-h, --help show the help
--foo some nifty option --foo
--bar ... some cool option --bar with an argument
--bar <arg> another cool option --baz with a named argument
--qux[=<path>] qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself

An option group Header
-C[...] option C with an optional argument
------------

SQ-QUOTE
--------

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13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion builtin/rev-parse.c
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Expand Up @@ -395,9 +395,10 @@ static int cmd_parseopt(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
usage[unb++] = strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
}

/* parse: (<short>|<short>,<long>|<long>)[=?]? SP+ <help> */
/* parse: (<short>|<short>,<long>|<long>)[*=?!]*<arghint>? SP+ <help> */
while (strbuf_getline(&sb, stdin, '\n') != EOF) {
const char *s;
const char *end;
struct option *o;

if (!sb.len)
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o->value = &parsed;
o->flags = PARSE_OPT_NOARG;
o->callback = &parseopt_dump;

/* Possible argument name hint */
end = s;
while (s > sb.buf && strchr("*=?!", s[-1]) == NULL)
--s;
if (s != sb.buf && s != end)
o->argh = xmemdupz(s, end - s);
if (s == sb.buf)
s = end;

while (s > sb.buf && strchr("*=?!", s[-1])) {
switch (*--s) {
case '=':
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh
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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ An option group Header
-C[...] option C with an optional argument
-d, --data[=...] short and long option with an optional argument
Argument hints
-b <arg> short option required argument
--bar2 <arg> long option required argument
-e, --fuz <with-space>
short and long option required argument
-s[<some>] short option optional argument
--long[=<data>] long option optional argument
-g, --fluf[=<path>] short and long option optional argument
--longest <very-long-argument-hint>
a very long argument hint
Extras
--extra1 line above used to cause a segfault but no longer does
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C? option C with an optional argument
d,data? short and long option with an optional argument
Argument hints
b=arg short option required argument
bar2=arg long option required argument
e,fuz=with-space short and long option required argument
s?some short option optional argument
long?data long option optional argument
g,fluf?path short and long option optional argument
longest=very-long-argument-hint a very long argument hint
Extras
extra1 line above used to cause a segfault but no longer does
EOF
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