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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-09-28 17:29:16 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-07 10:05:48 -0700
commitccfcaf399ffcc91553395a8de8e833e7685e7cc2 (patch)
tree42f7409a32b8414fbd9f1923ad62115ef7cee3bc /parse-options.c
parent749d6d166d8e3ea0ae32ede25f9aa23aa3b5e42b (diff)
parseopt: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
In the previous step, we introduced an optional filename that can be given to a configuration variable, and nullify the fact that such a configuration setting even existed if the named path is missing or empty. Let's do the same for command line options that name a pathname. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'parse-options.c')
-rw-r--r--parse-options.c31
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 5224203ffe..4faf66023a 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ static enum parse_opt_result do_get_value(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p,
{
const char *arg;
const int unset = flags & OPT_UNSET;
- int err;
if (unset && p->opt)
return error(_("%s takes no value"), optname(opt, flags));
@@ -209,21 +208,31 @@ static enum parse_opt_result do_get_value(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p,
case OPTION_FILENAME:
{
const char *value;
-
- FREE_AND_NULL(*(char **)opt->value);
-
- err = 0;
+ int is_optional;
if (unset)
value = NULL;
else if (opt->flags & PARSE_OPT_OPTARG && !p->opt)
- value = (const char *) opt->defval;
- else
- err = get_arg(p, opt, flags, &value);
+ value = (char *)opt->defval;
+ else {
+ int err = get_arg(p, opt, flags, &value);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+ if (!value)
+ return 0;
- if (!err)
- *(char **)opt->value = fix_filename(p->prefix, value);
- return err;
+ is_optional = skip_prefix(value, ":(optional)", &value);
+ if (!value)
+ is_optional = 0;
+ value = fix_filename(p->prefix, value);
+ if (is_optional && is_empty_or_missing_file(value)) {
+ free((char *)value);
+ } else {
+ FREE_AND_NULL(*(char **)opt->value);
+ *(const char **)opt->value = value;
+ }
+ return 0;
}
case OPTION_CALLBACK:
{