The PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP flag allows a program to override the
standard "<argument> for mandatory, [argument] for optional" markup in
its help message. Extend it to override the usual "no text for
disallowed", too (for the PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP
case, which was previously meaningless), to be more intuitive.
The motivation is to allow update-index to correctly advertise
--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <path>
add the specified entry to the index
while abusing PARSE_OPT_NOARG to disallow the "sticked form"
--cacheinfo=<mode> <object> <path>
Noticed-by: Stephen Boyd [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
This seems like the intuitive thing to do, but the motivating use case
is iffy. Might be better to introduce a PARSE_OPT_NOSTICKED flag.
parse-options.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 684d330..b640ac5 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -533,7 +533,8 @@ static int usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
if (opts->type == OPTION_NUMBER)
pos += fprintf(outfile, "-NUM");
- if (!(opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOARG))
+ if ((opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP) ||
+ !(opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOARG))
pos += usage_argh(opts, outfile);
if (pos <= USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH)
--
1.7.2.3