Re: [PATCH 4/4] checkout: cleanup --conflict=<style> parsing

> Hi Junio
>
> On 08/03/2024 16:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>> We could use OPT_CALLBACK() to accept the incoming string, parse it
>> and store it in opts->conflict_style and that would be a way to
>> avoid the extra member.
>> 
>>> +		opts->conflict_style =
>>> +			parse_conflict_style(opts->conflict_style_name);
>> When I saw the change to xdiff-interface in an earlier step, I
>> thought parse_conflict_style() was a potentially confusing name.
>> You can imagine a function that is fed a file with conflict markers
>> and say "ah, this uses diff3 style with common ancestor version" vs
>> "this uses merge style with only two sides" to have such a name.
>> parse_conflict_style_name() that takes a name and returns
>> conflict_style enumeration constant would not risk such a confusion,
>> I guess.
>
> Those are both good suggestions - I'll re-roll next week