Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2017, #02; Thu, 7)

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:


> * cc/skip-to-optional-val (2017-12-07) 7 commits
>  - t4045: test 'diff --relative' for real
>  - t4045: reindent to make helpers readable
>  - diff: use skip-to-optional-val in parsing --relative
>  - diff: use skip_to_optional_val_default()
>  - diff: use skip_to_optional_val()
>  - index-pack: use skip_to_optional_val()
>  - git-compat-util: introduce skip_to_optional_val()
>
>  Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that
>  expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>".
>
>  Even though I queued fixes for "diff --relative" on top, it may
>  still want a final reroll to make it harder to misuse by allowing
>  NULL at the valp part of the argument.

Yeah, I already implemented that and it will be in the next v3 version.

> Also s/_val/_arg/.

I am not sure that is a good idea, because it could suggest that the
functions are designed to parse only command option arguments, while
they can be used to parse any "key=val" string where "key" is also
allowed.

>  cf. <xmqqh8t6o9me.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
>  cf. <xmqqd13uo9d1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

It doesn't look like s/_val/_arg/ was discussed in the above messages.