Re: [PATCH 4/5] config.c: add a "tristate" helper

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2021, 01:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8s5qlxr9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YHD+BMo35krbH9rx@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> So a function like:
>
>   int git_parse_tristate(const char *value, int *out);
>
> which returned success/error via its return value, and put the value
> into "out" would feel pretty natural to me.

Yeah, with s/tristate/bool-or-auto/, and if we do this throughout the types, that would be ideal. FWIW git_parse_ulong() and friends for sized numerics already follow that pattern, but helpers for boolean like git_parse_maybe_bool() don't, which is unfortunate.

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