Re: git commit file completion recently broke

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

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> I think we'd do better to just assign NULL when there's "=", so we can
> tell the difference between "--relative", "--relative=", and
> "--relative=foo" (all of which are distinct).
>
> I think that's possible with the current scheme by doing:
>
>   else if (skip_to_optional_val_default(arg, "--relative", &arg, NULL)) {
>         options->flags.relative_name = 1;
>         if (arg)
>                 options->prefix = arg;
>   }

Yeah, that is a possible fix.

> IOW, the problem isn't in the design of the skip function, but just how
> it was used in this particular case.

I agree.

> I do think it may make sense for
> the "short" one to use NULL, like:
>
>   skip_to_optional_val(arg, "--relative, &arg)
>
> but maybe some other callers would be more inconvenienced (they may have
> to current NULL back into the empty string if they want to string
> "--foo" the same as "--foo=").

I discussed that with Junio and yeah there are many callers that want
"--foo" to be the same as "--foo=".

By the way I wonder if "--relative=" makes any sense, and if we should
emit a warning or just die in this case.