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[proposal] make parse-options nicer wrt optional arguments (supersedes all my recent posts on the matter)

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Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date
Dec 17, 2007, 18:23 UTC
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Here is a series that aims at fixing the various issues with parse-options that were raised recently.

* preliminary patch:
  [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: Make callbacks take flags instead of boolean `unset`
* teach git parse-options to allow callbacks to ignore arguments that
  don't seem to be theirs, refactors:
  [PATCH 2/7] parse-options: allow callbacks to ignore arguments they don't need to use.
  [PATCH 3/7] parse-options: Let the integer/string cases be callbacks as well.
  [PATCH 4/7] parse-options: let OPT__ABBREV ignore arguments.
* Document this (my previous proposal + Junio's squashed):
  [PATCH 5/7] parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.
* Implement my `{}` proposal, a sed -e s/{}/_/ will replace {} with _
  as a wildcard. Contains documentation for this placeholder.
  [PATCH 6/7] parse-options: have a `use default value` wildcard.
* Somehow unrelated patch, but still parse-option related (resend):
  [PATCH 7/7] git-tag: fix -l switch handling regression.

This has been pushed as my ph/parseopt branch on git://git.madism.org/git.git.

Next: Pierre Habouzit
Message 1 of 13 in “[proposal] make parse-options nicer wrt optional arguments (supersedes all my recent posts on the matter)”
  1. Pierre HabouzitDec 17, 2007
  2. 1/7 parse-options: Make callbacks take flags instead of boolean `unset`Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  3. 2/7 parse-options: allow callbacks to ignore arguments they don't need to use.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  4. 3/7 parse-options: Let the integer/string cases be callbacks as well.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  5. 4/7 parse-options: let OPT__ABBREV ignore arguments.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  6. 5/7 parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  7. 6/7 parse-options: have a `use default value` wildcard.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  8. 7/7 git-tag: fix -l switch handling regression.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 17, 2007
  9. Pierre HabouzitDec 17, 2007
  10. Pierre HabouzitDec 17, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2007
  12. Wayne DavisonDec 18, 2007
  13. Pierre HabouzitDec 17, 2007

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