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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Lin Sun" <lin.sun@zoom.us>,
	"Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>,
	"David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] config.c: add a "tristate" helper
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:43:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8s5qlxr9.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHD+BMo35krbH9rx@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:23:16 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So a function like:
>
>   int git_parse_tristate(const char *value, int *out);
>
> which returned success/error via its return value, and put the value
> into "out" would feel pretty natural to me.

Yeah, with s/tristate/bool-or-auto/, and if we do this throughout
the types, that would be ideal.  FWIW git_parse_ulong() and friends
for sized numerics already follow that pattern, but helpers for
boolean like git_parse_maybe_bool() don't, which is unfortunate.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-10  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-08 13:34 [PATCH 0/5] config: support --type=bool-or-auto for "tristate" parsing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] config.c: add a comment about why value=NULL is true Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 18:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] config tests: test for --bool-or-str Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 18:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 23:11     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] git-config: document --bool-or-str and --type=bool-or-str Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 18:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] config.c: add a "tristate" helper Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 18:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 23:23     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 23:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-09  1:33         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 12:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 23:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-09 20:05     ` Jeff King
2021-04-09 22:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-10  1:23         ` Jeff King
2021-04-10  1:43           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-04-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 5/5] config: add --type=bool-or-auto switch Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 18:36   ` Junio C Hamano

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