[PATCH] sparse-checkout: be consistent with end of options markers

["Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

93851746 (parse-options: decouple "--end-of-options" and "--",
2023-12-06) updated the world order to make callers of parse-options
that set PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT responsible for deciding what to
do with "--end-of-options" they may see after parse_options() returns.

This made a previous bug in sparse-checkout more visible; namely,
that

  git sparse-checkout [add|set] --[no-]cone --end-of-options ...

would simply treat "--end-of-options" as one of the paths to include in
the sparse-checkout.  But this was already problematic before; namely,

  git sparse-checkout [add|set| --[no-]cone --sikp-checks ...

would not give an error on the mis-typed "--skip-checks" but instead
simply treat "--sikp-checks" as a path or pattern to include in the
sparse-checkout, which is highly unfriendly.

This behavior begain when the command was converted to parse-options in
7bffca95ea (sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand,
2019-11-21).  Back then it was just called KEEP_UNKNOWN. Later it was
renamed to KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT in 99d86d60e5 (parse-options:
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options, 2022-08-19) to clarify
that it was only about dashed options; we always keep non-option
arguments.  Looking at that original patch, both Peff and I think that
the author was simply confused about the mis-named option, and really
just wanted to keep the non-option arguments.  We never should have used
the flag all along (and the other cases were cargo-culted within the
file).

Remove the erroneous PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT flag now to fix this
bug.  Note that this does mean that anyone who might have been using

  git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] --foo --bar

to request paths or patterns '--foo' and '--bar' will now have to use

  git sparse-checkout [add|set] [--[no-]cone] -- --foo --bar

That makes sparse-checkout more consistent with other git commands,
provides users much friendlier error messages and behavior, and is
consistent with the all-capps warning in git-sparse-checkout.txt that
this command "is experimental...its behavior...will likely change".  :-)

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
    [RFC] sparse-checkout: be consistent with end of options markers
    
    Follow-up to thread over at
    https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BF9XZeESHdxdcZ91Vsn5tKqQ6_3tC11e7t9vTFp=uufbg@mail.gmail.com/

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1625%2Fgitgitgadget%2Fsparse-checkout-end-of-options-consistency-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1625/gitgitgadget/sparse-checkout-end-of-options-consistency-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1625

 builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
index 5c8ffb1f759..0e68e9b0b0d 100644
--- a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
@@ -777,8 +777,7 @@ static int sparse_checkout_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix,
 			     builtin_sparse_checkout_add_options,
-			     builtin_sparse_checkout_add_usage,
-			     PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT);
+			     builtin_sparse_checkout_add_usage, 0);
 
 	sanitize_paths(argc, argv, prefix, add_opts.skip_checks);
 
@@ -824,8 +823,7 @@ static int sparse_checkout_set(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix,
 			     builtin_sparse_checkout_set_options,
-			     builtin_sparse_checkout_set_usage,
-			     PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT);
+			     builtin_sparse_checkout_set_usage, 0);
 
 	if (update_modes(&set_opts.cone_mode, &set_opts.sparse_index))
 		return 1;
@@ -996,8 +994,7 @@ static int sparse_checkout_check_rules(int argc, const char **argv, const char *
 
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix,
 			     builtin_sparse_checkout_check_rules_options,
-			     builtin_sparse_checkout_check_rules_usage,
-			     PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT);
+			     builtin_sparse_checkout_check_rules_usage, 0);
 
 	if (check_rules_opts.rules_file && check_rules_opts.cone_mode < 0)
 		check_rules_opts.cone_mode = 1;

base-commit: 055bb6e9969085777b7fab83e3fee0017654f134
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