We only parse the options if 2 or 3 arguments are specified. Update 'struct option options[]' to use OPT_CMDMODE rather than OPT_SET_INT to allow only one mutually exclusive option and avoid the need for checking number of arguments. This was written by Junio C Hamano, tested by me. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/cat-file.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c index df99df4..53b5376 100644 --- a/builtin/cat-file.c +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c @@ -362,12 +362,12 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) const struct option options[] = { OPT_GROUP(N_("<type> can be one of: blob, tree, commit, tag")), - OPT_SET_INT('t', NULL, &opt, N_("show object type"), 't'), - OPT_SET_INT('s', NULL, &opt, N_("show object size"), 's'), - OPT_SET_INT('e', NULL, &opt, + OPT_CMDMODE('t', NULL, &opt, N_("show object type"), 't'), + OPT_CMDMODE('s', NULL, &opt, N_("show object size"), 's'), + OPT_CMDMODE('e', NULL, &opt, N_("exit with zero when there's no error"), 'e'), - OPT_SET_INT('p', NULL, &opt, N_("pretty-print object's content"), 'p'), - OPT_SET_INT(0, "textconv", &opt, + OPT_CMDMODE('p', NULL, &opt, N_("pretty-print object's content"), 'p'), + OPT_CMDMODE(0, "textconv", &opt, N_("for blob objects, run textconv on object's content"), 'c'), { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "batch", &batch, "format", N_("show info and content of objects fed from the standard input"), @@ -380,9 +380,6 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) git_config(git_cat_file_config, NULL); - if (argc != 3 && argc != 2) - usage_with_options(cat_file_usage, options); - argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, cat_file_usage, 0); if (opt) { -- 2.4.0.rc1.250.gfbd73bd -- 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