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[PATCH 3/4] parseopt: make usage optional

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Mar 8, 2009, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID
<49B40B9A.8080202@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To
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Allow usagestr to be NULL and don't display anything a help screen in this case. This is useful to implement incremental parsers.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
---
 parse-options.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 8b21dea..51e804b 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
 int usage_with_options_internal(const char * const *usagestr,
 				const struct option *opts, int full)
 {
+	if (!usagestr)
+		return PARSE_OPT_HELP;
+
 	fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s\n", *usagestr++);
 	while (*usagestr && **usagestr)
 		fprintf(stderr, "   or: %s\n", *usagestr++);
-- 
1.6.2
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Message 9 of 13 in “What's in git.git (Mar 2009, #02; Thu, 05)”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2009
  2. René ScharfeMar 7, 2009
  3. 1/4 parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWNRené Scharfe, Mar 8, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2009
  6. 5/4 parseopt: document KEEP_ARGV0, KEEP_UNKNOWN, NO_INTERNAL_HELPRené Scharfe, Mar 9, 2009
  7. 6/4 parseopt: prevent KEEP_UNKNOWN and STOP_AT_NON_OPTION from being used togetherRené Scharfe, Mar 9, 2009
  8. 2/4 parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELPRené Scharfe, Mar 8, 2009
  9. 3/4 parseopt: make usage optionalRené Scharfe, Mar 8, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2009
  11. René ScharfeMar 9, 2009
  12. 4/4 archive: use parseopt for local-only optionsRené Scharfe, Mar 8, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2009

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