Change the option parsing machinery so that e.g. "clone --recurs ..."
doesn't error out because "clone" understands both "--recursive" and
"--recurse-submodules" to mean the same thing.
Initially "clone" just understood --recursive until the
--recurses-submodules alias was added in ccdd3da652 ("clone: Add the
--recurse-submodules option as alias for --recursive",
2010-11-04). Since bb62e0a99f ("clone: teach --recurse-submodules to
optionally take a pathspec", 2017-03-17) the longer form has been
promoted to the default.
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)
Let's re-use the PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE flag to mean "this option
doesn't contribute to abbreviation ambiguity". I was going to add a
new PARSE_OPT_NOABBREV flag, but it makes sense just to re-use
PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
See
https://public-inbox.org/git/20190325202329.26033-1-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/
for v1. There wasn't consensus for 1/2 there, but this used-to-be 2/2
seems like a no-brainer bugfix.
It conflicted with some recently-landed stuff in 'master', but now
cleanly applies to it and 'pu', and with pu's
GIT_TEST_DISALLOW_ABBREVIATED_OPTIONS.
builtin/clone.c | 4 ++--
parse-options.c | 3 ++-
parse-options.h | 2 ++
t/t0040-parse-options.sh | 5 +++++
4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 50bde99618..4dc26969a7 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
N_("setup as shared repository")),
{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "recursive", &option_recurse_submodules,
N_("pathspec"), N_("initialize submodules in the clone"),
- PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN, recurse_submodules_cb,
- (intptr_t)"." },
+ PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE,
+ recurse_submodules_cb, (intptr_t)"." },
{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "recurse-submodules", &option_recurse_submodules,
N_("pathspec"), N_("initialize submodules in the clone"),
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, recurse_submodules_cb, (intptr_t)"." },
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index cec74522e5..9899ce0171 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ static enum parse_opt_result parse_long_opt(
if (!rest) {
/* abbreviated? */
if (!(p->flags & PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN) &&
- !strncmp(long_name, arg, arg_end - arg)) {
+ !strncmp(long_name, arg, arg_end - arg) &&
+ !(options->flags & PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE)) {
is_abbreviated:
if (abbrev_option) {
/*
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index 74cce4e7fc..51c4b71ab0 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ typedef enum parse_opt_result parse_opt_ll_cb(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
* Useful for options with multiple parameters.
* PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE: by default all visible options are completable
* by git-completion.bash. This option suppresses that.
+ * Will also skip this option when abbreviation is
+ * considered.
* PARSE_OPT_COMP_ARG: this option forces to git-completion.bash to
* complete an option as --name= not --name even if
* the option takes optional argument.
diff --git a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
index b8f366c442..e8f0371830 100755
--- a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
+++ b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ test_expect_success 'non ambiguous option (after two options it abbreviates)' '
test-tool parse-options --expect="string: 123" --st 123
'
+test_expect_success 'NOCOMPLETE options do not contribute to abbreviation' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf A" &&
+ git clone --recurs . A
+'
+
cat >typo.err <<\EOF
error: did you mean `--boolean` (with two dashes ?)
EOF
--
2.21.0.593.g511ec345e18
