Am 02.08.2018 um 17:44 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Subject: [PATCH] push: use PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP instead of unbalanced brackets > From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:31:33 +0200 > > The option help text for the force-with-lease option to "git push" > reads like this: > > $ git push -h 2>&1 | grep -e force-with-lease > --force-with-lease[=<refname>:<expect>] > > which comes from having N_("refname>:<expect") as the argument help > text in the source code, with an aparent lack of "<" and ">" at both > ends. > > It turns out that parse-options machinery takes the whole string and > encloses it inside a pair of "<>", to make it easier for majority > cases that uses a single token placeholder. > > The help string was written in a funnily unbalanced way knowing that > the end result would balance out, by somebody who forgot the > presence of PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, which is the escape hatch > mechanism designed to help such a case. We just should use the > official escape hatch instead. > > Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> I didn't do anything for this particular patch so far? But... > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/push.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c > index 1c28427d82..ef4032a9ef 100644 > --- a/builtin/push.c > +++ b/builtin/push.c > @@ -542,9 +542,9 @@ int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > OPT_BIT( 0, "porcelain", &flags, N_("machine-readable output"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_PORCELAIN), > OPT_BIT('f', "force", &flags, N_("force updates"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE), > { OPTION_CALLBACK, > - 0, CAS_OPT_NAME, &cas, N_("refname>:<expect"), > + 0, CAS_OPT_NAME, &cas, N_("<refname>:<expect>"), ... shouldn't we use this opportunity to document that "expect" is optional? + 0, CAS_OPT_NAME, &cas, N_("<refname>[:<expect>]"), > N_("require old value of ref to be at this value"), > - PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, parseopt_push_cas_option }, > + PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, parseopt_push_cas_option }, > { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "recurse-submodules", &recurse_submodules, "check|on-demand|no", > N_("control recursive pushing of submodules"), > PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, option_parse_recurse_submodules }, >