From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2017, #02; Thu, 7)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 07:56:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqshcl9prv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1zDcwfMBWy5F0KAru9wWS8k6qmKtCRLTZBsN-jLXeysw@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Fri, 8 Dec 2017 16:36:13 +0100")
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Good. I am hoping that you've followed the discussion on the tests,
where all of us agreed that the approach taken by Jacob's one is
preferrable over what is queued above?
>> 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.
It came from your statement that was made before the thread, where
you said you'll rename it to use arg after I said I suspect that arg
would make more sense than val.
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD2OSsqzhyAL-QG1TOowB-xgbf=kC9wHre+FLc+0J1Xy+Q@mail.gmail.com/
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-08 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-07 18:04 What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2017, #02; Thu, 7) Junio C Hamano
2017-12-08 5:49 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-08 11:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-08 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-08 15:36 ` Christian Couder
2017-12-08 15:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-12 9:30 ` Christian Couder
2017-12-12 16:53 ` Philip Oakley
2017-12-13 15:58 ` Jeff Hostetler
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