Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse_options: Add flag to prevent errors for further processing
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Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
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- Jun 19, 2008, 14:25 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:52:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > I think the only right way to accomplish this is to convert the revision
> >> > and diff parameters into a parseopt-understandable format.
> >>
> >> Not necessarily. You could structure individual option parsers like how
> >> diff option parsers are done. You iterate over argv[], feed diff option
> >> parser the current index into argv[] and ask if it is an option diff
> >> understands, have diff eat the option (and possibly its parameter) to
> >> advance the index, or allow diff option to say "I do not understand
> >> this", and then handle it yourself or hand it to other parsers.
> >
> > AFAIR Pierre tried a few ways, and settled with a macro to introduce the
> > diff options into a caller's options.
> >
> > IOW it would look something like this:
> >
> > static struct option builtin_what_options[] = {
> > [... options specific to this command ...]
> > DIFF__OPT(&diff_options)
> > };
>
> I think that is the more painful approach Jeff mentioned, and my comment
> was to show that it is not the only way.
> It seems to me that you could implement Jeff's PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_UNKNOWN, and then if multiple option parsers are needed you would simply loop over parse_options for each of the commands, waiting for argc to stop changing. Of course Jeff's flag would also need to stop parse_options from eating the first argument. Is this sort of what you are suggesting Junio?
-- Shawn