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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: allow --pretty= args to be abbreviated
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 13:47:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vac9jhv66.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060515003405.GA5533@localdomain

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Unlike the original one, this one only does prefix matches, so
> you can't do --pretty=er anymore :)

Sounds good.  But then you know how long the unique prefix
are for each candidate, so wouldn't this rather be redundant, I
wonder?

> +
> +	/* look for abbreviations */
> +	len = strlen(arg);
> +	found = -1;
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cmt_fmts); i++) {
> +		if (!strncmp(cmt_fmts[i].n, arg, len)) {
> +			if (found >= 0)
> +				die("invalid --pretty format: %s", arg);
> +			found = i;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	if (found >= 0)
> +		return cmt_fmts[found].v;
> +	die("invalid --pretty format: %s", arg);
>  }

It would probably be better to say "ambiguous" not "invalid" in
the die() message.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14 15:19 [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements (take #2) Eric Wong
2006-05-14 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Eric Wong
2006-05-14 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] gitopt: convert ls-files, ls-tree, update-index Eric Wong
2006-05-14 15:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] gitopt: convert setup_revisions() and friends Eric Wong
2006-05-14 15:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] commit: allow --pretty= args to be abbreviated Eric Wong
2006-05-14 23:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15  0:34     ` [PATCH] " Eric Wong
2006-05-15 20:47       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-16 13:25         ` Eric Wong
2006-05-14 15:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] diff: parse U/u/unified options with an optional integer arg Eric Wong
2006-05-14 16:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-14 23:36     ` Eric Wong

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