From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:55:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716165517.433849-2-christian.couder@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260716165517.433849-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>
Hidden options are not shown by `git <cmd> -h`, but are still shown by
`git <cmd> --help-all`. If there are a lot of hidden options or if they
don't belong to the same categories as other options, there is
currently no way to properly group them.
Using `OPT_GROUP("Foo")` means that "Foo" will always be shown which we
don't want if that group contains only hidden options.
To provide a way to have groups shown only when hidden options are
shown, let's implement an OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP macro.
To test this new macro, let's also improve `test-tool parse-options`
and test its output with `--help-all`.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
parse-options.c | 4 ++--
parse-options.h | 5 +++++
t/helper/test-parse-options.c | 4 ++++
t/t0040-parse-options.sh | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index f4647e0099..640e600de8 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -1404,6 +1404,8 @@ static enum parse_opt_result usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t
if (opts->type == OPTION_SUBCOMMAND)
continue;
+ if (!full && (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN))
+ continue;
if (opts->type == OPTION_GROUP) {
fputc('\n', outfile);
need_newline = 0;
@@ -1411,8 +1413,6 @@ static enum parse_opt_result usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t
fprintf(outfile, "%s\n", _(opts->help));
continue;
}
- if (!full && (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN))
- continue;
if (need_newline) {
fputc('\n', outfile);
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index 0d1f738f8d..a28b3cd942 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -236,6 +236,11 @@ struct option {
.type = OPTION_GROUP, \
.help = (h), \
}
+#define OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP(h) { \
+ .type = OPTION_GROUP, \
+ .help = (h), \
+ .flags = PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN, \
+}
#define OPT_BIT(s, l, v, h, b) OPT_BIT_F(s, l, v, h, b, 0)
#define OPT_BITOP(s, l, v, h, set, clear) { \
.type = OPTION_BITOP, \
diff --git a/t/helper/test-parse-options.c b/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
index 68579d83f3..f181f0c02d 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-parse-options.c
@@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ int cmd__parse_options(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_GROUP("Alias"),
OPT_STRING('A', "alias-source", &string, "string", "get a string"),
OPT_ALIAS('Z', "alias-target", "alias-source"),
+ OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP("Hidden options"),
+ OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "hidden-bool", &boolean, "get a boolean"),
+ OPT_INTEGER_F('k', "hidden-integer", &integer, "get a integer",
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN),
OPT_END(),
};
int ret = 0;
diff --git a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
index ca55ea8228..4040333185 100755
--- a/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
+++ b/t/t0040-parse-options.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ test_description='our own option parser'
. ./test-lib.sh
-cat >expect <<\EOF
+cat >expect-part1 <<\EOF
usage: test-tool parse-options <options>
A helper function for the parse-options API.
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ String options
--[no-]string2 <str> get another string
--[no-]st <st> get another string (pervert ordering)
-o <str> get another string
+EOF
+
+cat >expect-part2 <<\EOF
--longhelp help text of this entry
spans multiple lines
--[no-]list <str> add str to list
@@ -67,12 +70,32 @@ Alias
EOF
+cat >expect-noop <<\EOF
+ --[no-]obsolete no-op (backward compatibility)
+EOF
+
+cat >expect-hidden <<\EOF
+Hidden options
+ --[no-]hidden-bool get a boolean
+ -k, --[no-]hidden-integer <n>
+ get a integer
+
+EOF
+
test_expect_success 'test help' '
+ cat expect-part1 expect-part2 >expect &&
test_must_fail test-tool parse-options -h >output 2>output.err &&
test_must_be_empty output.err &&
test_cmp expect output
'
+test_expect_success 'test --help-all shows hidden group and options' '
+ cat expect-part1 expect-noop expect-part2 expect-hidden >expect-help-all &&
+ test_must_fail test-tool parse-options --help-all >output 2>output.err &&
+ test_must_be_empty output.err &&
+ test_cmp expect-help-all output
+'
+
mv expect expect.err
check () {
--
2.55.0.185.g9120d2b5c0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 16:55 [PATCH 0/7] fast-import: standardize usage string and SYNOPSIS Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2026-07-16 21:14 ` [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP Junio C Hamano
2026-07-16 22:14 ` .mailmap etiquette (was "Re: [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP") D. Ben Knoble
2026-07-16 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] api-parse-options.adoc: document per-option flags Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] api-parse-options.adoc: document hidden and OPT_*_F option macros Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] fast-import: localize 'i' into the 'for' loops using it Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] fast-import: introduce 'struct fast_import_state' Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] fast-import: move command state globals into " Christian Couder
2026-07-16 16:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] fast-import: use struct option for usage string Christian Couder
2026-07-16 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
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