Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/9] parse-options: add parse_opt_merge_filter()

[Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>]

On 06/09/2015 12:50 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +int parse_opt_merge_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
>> +{
>> +	struct ref_filter *rf = opt->value;
>> +	unsigned char sha1[20];
>> +
>> +	rf->merge = opt->long_name[0] == 'n'
>> +		? REF_FILTER_MERGED_OMIT
>> +		: REF_FILTER_MERGED_INCLUDE;
>> +
>> +	if (!arg)
>> +		arg = "HEAD";
>> +	if (get_sha1(arg, sha1))
>> +		die(_("malformed object name %s"), arg);
>> +
>> +	rf->merge_commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 0);
>> +	if (!rf->merge_commit)
>> +		return opterror(opt, "must point to a commit", 0);
>> +
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>
> Again, this smells too specific to live as a part of parse-options
> infrastructure.  If we want to have two helper callbacks, one that
> gives the results in an sha1-array (because there is no guarantee
> that you want only commits) and in a commit-list, I am fine with
> having parse_opt_object_name() and parse_opt_with_commit().  Perhaps
> rename the latter which was named too specifically to something more
> sensible (e.g. parse_opt_commit_object_name()) and use it from the
> caller you wanted to use parse_opt_merge_filter()?  The caller, if
> it is not prepared to see more than one commits specified, may have
> to check if (!list || !list->next) { die("I want one and only one") }
> or something, though.
>
> Having it in ref-filter.h as parse_opt_merge_filter() is fine,
> though.  After all, you would be sharing it with for-each-ref,
> branch and tag and nobody else anyway.
 >

I guess it's better left in ref-filter.h. We could like you said make
it depend on parse_opt_with_commit() but that again means we need to 
check if more than one commits are specified. So I think it would be 
better to have it in ref-filter.h
>
>> diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
>> index 3ae16a1..7bcf0f3 100644
>> --- a/parse-options.h
>> +++ b/parse-options.h
>> @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ extern int parse_opt_expiry_date_cb(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_color_flag_cb(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_verbosity_cb(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_points_at(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>> +extern int parse_opt_merge_filter(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_with_commit(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_tertiary(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   extern int parse_opt_string_list(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>> @@ -243,5 +244,15 @@ extern int parse_opt_noop_cb(const struct option *, const char *, int);
>>   	OPT_COLOR_FLAG(0, "color", (var), (h))
>>   #define OPT_COLUMN(s, l, v, h) \
>>   	{ OPTION_CALLBACK, (s), (l), (v), N_("style"), (h), PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, parseopt_column_callback }
>> +#define OPT_NO_MERGED(filter, h) \
>> +	{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "no-merged", (filter), N_("commit"), (h), \
>> +	  PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT | PARSE_OPT_NONEG, \
>> +	  parse_opt_merge_filter, (intptr_t) "HEAD" \
>> +	}
>> +#define OPT_MERGED(filter, h) \
>> +	{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "merged", (filter), N_("commit"), (h), \
>> +	  PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT | PARSE_OPT_NONEG, \
>> +	  parse_opt_merge_filter, (intptr_t) "HEAD" \
>> +	}
>
> Likewise.
>

This too would be better off in ref-filter.h

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Regards,
Karthik