Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

quoted text
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> Umm. Helloo, reality.. There are actually very few options that take a 
>> flag for their arguments. In particular, the option parsing we really 
>> _care_ about (revision parsing - see builtin-blame.c which is exactly 
>> where I wanted to convert things) very much DOES NOT.
>
> Actually, I guess "--default" does, but if you try to mix that up with (a) 
> a default head that starts with a dash and (b) git-blame, you're doing 
> something pretty odd.
>
> And yes, "-n" does too, but if you pass it negative numbers you get what 
> you deserve.
>
> The point being, we really _do_ have a real-life existing case for 
> PARSE_OPT_CONTINUE_ON_UNKNOWN, which is hard to handle any other way. 
> Currently you can literally do
>
> 	git blame --since=April -b Makefile
>
> and while it's a totally made-up example, it's one I've picked to show 
> exactly what does *not* work with my patch that started this whole thread.
>
> And guess what you need to fix it?
>
> If you guessed PARSE_OPT_CONTINUE_ON_UNKNOWN, you win a prize. 

With this on top of Pierre's series, and adding PARSE_OPT_SKIP_UNKNOWN to
the obvious place in your patch, "blame --since=April -b Makefile" would
work.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] parse-options: PARSE_OPT_SKIP_UNKNOWN

---
 parse-options.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 parse-options.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 71a8056..9f1eb65 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -341,20 +341,26 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
 	struct parse_opt_ctx_t ctx;
 
 	parse_options_start(&ctx, argc, argv, flags);
+
+ again:
 	switch (parse_options_step(&ctx, options, usagestr)) {
 	case PARSE_OPT_HELP:
 		exit(129);
 	case PARSE_OPT_DONE:
 		break;
 	default: /* PARSE_OPT_UNKNOWN */
-		if (ctx.argv[0][1] == '-') {
+		if (flags & PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN) {
+			ctx.out[ctx.cpidx++] = ctx.argv[0];
+			ctx.argc--;
+			ctx.argv++;
+			goto again;
+		}
+		if (ctx.argv[0][1] == '-')
 			error("unknown option `%s'", ctx.argv[0] + 2);
-		} else {
+		else
 			error("unknown switch `%c'", *ctx.opt);
-		}
 		usage_with_options(usagestr, options);
 	}
-
 	return parse_options_end(&ctx);
 }
 
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index 403794f..30fbf7e 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ enum parse_opt_type {
 enum parse_opt_flags {
 	PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH = 1,
 	PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION = 2,
+	PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN = 4,
 };
 
 enum parse_opt_option_flags {
-- 
1.5.6.49.g112db


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