[PATCH v4 1/4] parse-options: add parse_options_takes_argument()
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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 2, 2026, 15:14 UTC
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- <20261102151447.734680-7-christian.couder@gmail.com>
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- <20261102151447.734680-6-christian.couder@gmail.com>
Whether an option takes a value, and therefore consumes the next argument when that value is not stuck to it with an '=', is decided by its type and its flags. That rule is currently open-coded in show_gitcomp(), which needs it to decide if it should append an '=' to the option it completes.
A following commit will need the same rule to find out which options an early scan of the command line has to skip along with their value.
So let's factor that rule out into a new parse_options_takes_argument() function, and let's use it in show_gitcomp().
Note that an option with PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT only consumes the next argument when it isn't the last one. It is considered as taking a value by parse_options_takes_argument(), as an early scan can easily check whether there is a next argument, and would otherwise wrongly take that argument for an option. show_gitcomp() keeps not appending an '=' to such an option though, as it already did, since its value is optional.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> --- parse-options.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- parse-options.h | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c index 4519ead9dc..d7cbb5a343 100644 --- a/parse-options.c +++ b/parse-options.c @@ -841,6 +841,25 @@ static void show_negated_gitcomp(const struct option *opts, int show_all, } } +int parse_options_takes_argument(const struct option *opt) +{ + switch (opt->type) { + case OPTION_STRING: + case OPTION_FILENAME: + case OPTION_INTEGER: + case OPTION_UNSIGNED: + case OPTION_CALLBACK: + break; + default: + return 0; + } + + if (opt->flags & (PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_OPTARG)) + return 0; + + return 1; +} + static int show_gitcomp(const struct option *opts, int show_all) { const struct option *original_opts = opts; @@ -862,20 +881,10 @@ static int show_gitcomp(const struct option *opts, int show_all) break; case OPTION_GROUP: continue; - case OPTION_STRING: - case OPTION_FILENAME: - case OPTION_INTEGER: - case OPTION_UNSIGNED: - case OPTION_CALLBACK: - if (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOARG) - break; - if (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_OPTARG) - break; - if (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT) - break; - suffix = "="; - break; default: + if (parse_options_takes_argument(opts) && + !(opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT)) + suffix = "="; break; } if (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_COMP_ARG) diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h index d7f896a933..589f8d9008 100644 --- a/parse-options.h +++ b/parse-options.h @@ -420,6 +420,17 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, const char * const usagestr[], enum parse_opt_flags flags); +/* + * Return non-zero if `opt` takes a value, which means that it consumes + * the next argument when that value is not stuck to it with an '='. + * + * Note that an option with PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT is considered as + * taking a value here, even though it only consumes the next argument + * when it isn't the last one. Callers that care have to check for that + * flag themselves. + */ +int parse_options_takes_argument(const struct option *opt); + NORETURN void usage_with_options(const char * const *usagestr, const struct option *options);
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