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authorPierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>2007-11-19 10:21:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-11-22 22:11:28 -0800
commitdd3bf0f4a5bab17011e94bfeb808ee64dd2ad040 (patch)
tree0d0602508bf287ffd733b685f5bed6750a057fe3
parent31e7bded608416e3116f9c691a4d4314f10640b6 (diff)
downloadgit-dd3bf0f4a5bab17011e94bfeb808ee64dd2ad040.tar.gz
parse-options: Allow to hide options from the default usage.
This is useful for backward-compatibility aliases, or very advanced command line switches introduced for internal git usages and have no real use for a user. parse-options still shows them if the user asks for --help-all. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--parse-options.c17
-rw-r--r--parse-options.h3
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index d3e608ac45..e12b428c0a 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ is_abbreviated:
return error("unknown option `%s'", arg);
}
+static NORETURN void usage_with_options_internal(const char * const *,
+ const struct option *, int);
+
int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
const char * const usagestr[], int flags)
{
@@ -249,6 +252,8 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
break;
}
+ if (!strcmp(arg + 2, "help-all"))
+ usage_with_options_internal(usagestr, options, 1);
if (!strcmp(arg + 2, "help"))
usage_with_options(usagestr, options);
if (parse_long_opt(&args, arg + 2, options))
@@ -263,8 +268,8 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
#define USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH 24
#define USAGE_GAP 2
-void usage_with_options(const char * const *usagestr,
- const struct option *opts)
+void usage_with_options_internal(const char * const *usagestr,
+ const struct option *opts, int full)
{
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s\n", *usagestr++);
while (*usagestr && **usagestr)
@@ -285,6 +290,8 @@ void usage_with_options(const char * const *usagestr,
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", opts->help);
continue;
}
+ if (!full && (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN))
+ continue;
pos = fprintf(stderr, " ");
if (opts->short_name)
@@ -335,6 +342,12 @@ void usage_with_options(const char * const *usagestr,
exit(129);
}
+void usage_with_options(const char * const *usagestr,
+ const struct option *opts)
+{
+ usage_with_options_internal(usagestr, opts, 0);
+}
+
/*----- some often used options -----*/
#include "cache.h"
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index a8760ac4b2..102ac31fb7 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ enum parse_opt_option_flags {
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG = 1,
PARSE_OPT_NOARG = 2,
PARSE_OPT_NONEG = 4,
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN = 8,
};
struct option;
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ typedef int parse_opt_cb(const struct option *, const char *arg, int unset);
* PARSE_OPT_OPTARG: says that the argument is optionnal (not for BOOLEANs)
* PARSE_OPT_NOARG: says that this option takes no argument, for CALLBACKs
* PARSE_OPT_NONEG: says that this option cannot be negated
+ * PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN this option is skipped in the default usage, showed in
+ * the long one.
*
* `callback`::
* pointer to the callback to use for OPTION_CALLBACK.