On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 08:50:16PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote: > Attached is rather minimal incompatible change to --diff-merges that'd > allow extensions in the future, to get out of urge for the discussed > changes. I'm going to follow-up with actual improvements and I'm aware > it lacks documentation changes. Thanks, I like the direction here. Definitely it would need documentation, but also tests (probably in t4013 alongside the ones my series added; in fact you'd probably need to adjust my tests for the non-optional argument). > diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c > index 669bc856694f..dcdff59bc36a 100644 > --- a/revision.c > +++ b/revision.c > @@ -2323,10 +2323,31 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg > revs->diff = 1; > revs->diffopt.flags.recursive = 1; > revs->diffopt.flags.tree_in_recursive = 1; > - } else if (!strcmp(arg, "-m") || !strcmp(arg, "--diff-merges")) { > + } else if ((argcount = parse_long_opt("diff-merges", argv, &optarg))) { > revs->ignore_merges = 0; > + if (!strcmp(optarg, "off")) { > + revs->ignore_merges = 1; > + } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "all")) { > + revs->diff = 0; Should this be revs->ignore_merges = 0? > + } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "c")) { > + revs->diff = 1; > + revs->dense_combined_merges = 0; > + revs->combine_merges = 1; > + } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "cc")) { > + revs->diff = 1; > + revs->dense_combined_merges = 1; > + revs->combine_merges = 1; > + } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "combined-all-paths")) { > + revs->diff = 1; > + revs->combined_all_paths = 1; I think Junio's suggestion to push these out to a separate patch is a good one. It's unfortunate that we have to duplicate all of the various options that get set (from the "--cc", etc, blocks). But I think the boilerplate for pushing it into a helper would make it even harder to read. > + } else { > + die("--diff-merges: unknown value '%s'.", optarg); > + } A few nits: - we usually don't have a period at the end of our error messages - this should probably be marked for translation, i.e., die(_("translated message"), optarg) - I think other similar messages are more like: unknown value for --diff-merges: %s > + return argcount; > } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-diff-merges")) { > revs->ignore_merges = 1; I thought at first that the --no- form would be handled by parse_long_opt() via the parseopt code, but it is not using parseopt at all. :) So it is correct to keep this. -Peff