The PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP flag allows a program to override the standard "<argument> for mandatory, [argument] for optional" markup in its help message. Extend it to override the usual "no text for disallowed", too (for the PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP case, which was previously meaningless), to be more intuitive. The motivation is to allow update-index to correctly advertise --cacheinfo <mode> <object> <path> add the specified entry to the index while abusing PARSE_OPT_NOARG to disallow the "sticked form" --cacheinfo=<mode> <object> <path> Noticed-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- This seems like the intuitive thing to do, but the motivating use case is iffy. Might be better to introduce a PARSE_OPT_NOSTICKED flag. parse-options.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c index 684d330..b640ac5 100644 --- a/parse-options.c +++ b/parse-options.c @@ -533,7 +533,8 @@ static int usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx, if (opts->type == OPTION_NUMBER) pos += fprintf(outfile, "-NUM"); - if (!(opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOARG)) + if ((opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP) || + !(opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOARG)) pos += usage_argh(opts, outfile); if (pos <= USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH) -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html