From: Pranit Bauva Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:07:01 GMT Subject: [PATCH] api-parse-options.txt: document OPT_CMDMODE() Message-ID: <01020153a7e08100-cf66fc9f-7293-4d8c-98c6-f322721c741f-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> OPT_CMDMODE() was introduced in the release of 1.8.5 which makes the use of subcommands in the form of arguments a lot cleaner and easier. --- Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 5f0757d..8130d26 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -231,6 +231,12 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: pass the command-line option, which can be specified multiple times, to another command. +`OPT_CMDMODE(short, long, &int_var, description, enum_val)`:: + Introduce an option for subcommands. It is useful when you want to use + the command with a particular sub command only and ignore other sub + commands it has. It will set `int_var` to enum_val if the argument is + invoked. + The last element of the array must be `OPT_END()`. -- https://github.com/git/git/pull/219