[PATCH 0/2] Parsing a subcommand using parse-options

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Hi,

It's been itching me for some time now: I want parse-options to be
able to parse a "subcommand".  It all started when I noticed how ugly
my implementation of '--continue' and '--quit' in git-revert were:
using an OPT_BOOLEAN to parse the option into separate integer
variables, and then using if-else constructs to turn that into an
enum.  Yuck!  Also, wouldn't we all love something like this in the
future?

  git stash show
            ^^ -- The subcommand "show" to the git-stash builtin

Ofcourse, git-stash.sh is just a shell script, and the full motivation
doesn't arise until someone decides to turn it into a C builtin.  So,
I went hunting for a C builtin that used subcommands and found
something relatively obscure: git-bundle.  It does option-parsing by
hand; changing it to use parse-options is the perfect opportunity to
implement this subcommand feature!

Thoughts?

-- Ram

Ramkumar Ramachandra (2):
  parse-options: introduce OPT_SUBCOMMAND
  bundle: rewrite builtin to use parse-options

 builtin/bundle.c         |  111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 parse-options.c          |    5 +-
 parse-options.h          |    3 +
 t/t0040-parse-options.sh |   31 +++++++++++++
 test-parse-options.c     |    4 ++
 5 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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