Re: [PATCH v2] parse-options: don't emit "ambiguous option" for aliases

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> But due to the way the options parsing machinery works this resulted
> in the rather absurd situation of:
>
>     $ git clone --recurs [...]
>     error: ambiguous option: recurs (could be --recursive or --recurse-submodules)
>
> Add OPT_ALIAS() to express this link between two or more options and use
> it in git-clone. Multiple aliases of an option could be written as
>
>     OPT_ALIAS(0, "alias1", "original-name"),
>     OPT_ALIAS(0, "alias2", "original-name"),
>     ...
>
> The current implementation is not exactly optimal in this case. But we
> can optimize it when it becomes a problem. So far we don't even have two
> aliases of any option.

Sounds good enough for any practical need I can forsee ;-)  Thanks.

> diff --git a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
> index 800b3ea5f5..cebc77fab0 100755
> --- a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
> +++ b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
> @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Standard options
>      -q, --quiet           be quiet
>      --expect <string>     expected output in the variable dump
>  
> +Alias
> +    -A, --alias-source <string>
> +                          get a string
> +    -Z, --alias-target <string>
> +                          get a string
> +
>  EOF

This is not a new problem per-se, as there already is a line before
the precontext of this hunk that shares the same issue, but to
prevent future problems, I am very much tempted to apply the
attached on top.

-- >8 --
Subject: t0040: protect lines that are indented by spaces

This block is byte-for-byte identical expected output, that contains a
few lines that are indented in many spaces, which makes "git diff --check"
unhappy and will break the test when "git am --whitespace=fix" is
allowed to "correct" them.

Protect the left edge with a marker character, and strip it with
sed, which is used as a standard way to deal with this issue in our
test suite.

Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 * Of course, if the right-edge need to be protected, we can do so
   as well.

 t/t0040-parse-options.sh | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
index cebc77fab0..26373b5b72 100755
--- a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
+++ b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
@@ -7,53 +7,53 @@ test_description='our own option parser'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-cat >expect <<\EOF
-usage: test-tool parse-options <options>
-
-    A helper function for the parse-options API.
-
-    --yes                 get a boolean
-    -D, --no-doubt        begins with 'no-'
-    -B, --no-fear         be brave
-    -b, --boolean         increment by one
-    -4, --or4             bitwise-or boolean with ...0100
-    --neg-or4             same as --no-or4
-
-    -i, --integer <n>     get a integer
-    -j <n>                get a integer, too
-    -m, --magnitude <n>   get a magnitude
-    --set23               set integer to 23
-    -L, --length <str>    get length of <str>
-    -F, --file <file>     set file to <file>
-
-String options
-    -s, --string <string>
-                          get a string
-    --string2 <str>       get another string
-    --st <st>             get another string (pervert ordering)
-    -o <str>              get another string
-    --list <str>          add str to list
-
-Magic arguments
-    --quux                means --quux
-    -NUM                  set integer to NUM
-    +                     same as -b
-    --ambiguous           positive ambiguity
-    --no-ambiguous        negative ambiguity
-
-Standard options
-    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
-    -v, --verbose         be verbose
-    -n, --dry-run         dry run
-    -q, --quiet           be quiet
-    --expect <string>     expected output in the variable dump
-
-Alias
-    -A, --alias-source <string>
-                          get a string
-    -Z, --alias-target <string>
-                          get a string
-
+sed -e 's/^|//' >expect <<\EOF
+|usage: test-tool parse-options <options>
+|
+|    A helper function for the parse-options API.
+|
+|    --yes                 get a boolean
+|    -D, --no-doubt        begins with 'no-'
+|    -B, --no-fear         be brave
+|    -b, --boolean         increment by one
+|    -4, --or4             bitwise-or boolean with ...0100
+|    --neg-or4             same as --no-or4
+|
+|    -i, --integer <n>     get a integer
+|    -j <n>                get a integer, too
+|    -m, --magnitude <n>   get a magnitude
+|    --set23               set integer to 23
+|    -L, --length <str>    get length of <str>
+|    -F, --file <file>     set file to <file>
+|
+|String options
+|    -s, --string <string>
+|                          get a string
+|    --string2 <str>       get another string
+|    --st <st>             get another string (pervert ordering)
+|    -o <str>              get another string
+|    --list <str>          add str to list
+|
+|Magic arguments
+|    --quux                means --quux
+|    -NUM                  set integer to NUM
+|    +                     same as -b
+|    --ambiguous           positive ambiguity
+|    --no-ambiguous        negative ambiguity
+|
+|Standard options
+|    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
+|    -v, --verbose         be verbose
+|    -n, --dry-run         dry run
+|    -q, --quiet           be quiet
+|    --expect <string>     expected output in the variable dump
+|
+|Alias
+|    -A, --alias-source <string>
+|                          get a string
+|    -Z, --alias-target <string>
+|                          get a string
+|
 EOF
 
 test_expect_success 'test help' '