On 10/11/2019 6:27 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:08 PM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> The 'git sparse-checkout set' subcommand takes a list of patterns >> and places them in the sparse-checkout file. Then, it updates the >> working directory to match those patterns. For a large list of >> patterns, the command-line call can get very cumbersome. >> >> Add a '--stdin' option to instead read patterns over standard in. >> >> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- >> t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++ >> 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c >> index 52d4f832f3..68f3d8433e 100644 >> --- a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c >> +++ b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c >> @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ static int write_patterns_and_update(struct pattern_list *pl) >> char *sparse_filename; >> FILE *fp; >> >> + if (!core_apply_sparse_checkout) { >> + warning(_("core.sparseCheckout is disabled, so changes to the sparse-checkout file will have no effect")); >> + warning(_("run 'git sparse-checkout init' to enable the sparse-checkout feature")); >> + } >> + >> sparse_filename = get_sparse_checkout_filename(); >> fp = fopen(sparse_filename, "w"); >> write_patterns_to_file(fp, pl); >> @@ -154,16 +159,47 @@ static int write_patterns_and_update(struct pattern_list *pl) >> return update_working_directory(); >> } >> >> +static char const * const builtin_sparse_checkout_set_usage[] = { >> + N_("git sparse-checkout set [--stdin|<patterns>]"), >> + NULL >> +}; >> + >> +static struct sparse_checkout_set_opts { >> + int use_stdin; >> +} set_opts; >> + >> static int sparse_checkout_set(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> { >> static const char *empty_base = ""; >> int i; >> struct pattern_list pl; >> int result; >> + >> + static struct option builtin_sparse_checkout_set_options[] = { >> + OPT_BOOL(0, "stdin", &set_opts.use_stdin, >> + N_("read patterns from standard in")), >> + OPT_END(), >> + }; >> + >> memset(&pl, 0, sizeof(pl)); >> >> - for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) >> - add_pattern(argv[i], empty_base, 0, &pl, 0); >> + argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, >> + builtin_sparse_checkout_set_options, >> + builtin_sparse_checkout_set_usage, >> + PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN); > > Does this mean users can also spell it 'git sparse-checkout --stdin > set', instead of the expected 'git sparse-checkout set --stdin'? No, because the parse_options() inside cmd_sparse_checkout() parses until it doesn't recognize an option. ('stdin' in your example). After we "consume" the subcommand "set", we call this method and the parse_options() can then read the '--stdin'. Here is the output from my local command of 'git sparse-checkout --stdin set' at this commit: $ ./git sparse-checkout --stdin set error: unknown option `stdin' usage: git sparse-checkout [init|list|set] <options> Thanks, -Stolee