From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 01:43:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] config.c: add a "tristate" helper
Message-ID: <xmqq8s5qlxr9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YHD+BMo35krbH9rx@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.