Re: [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 02.08.2018 um 17:31 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>> diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
>> index 7db84227ab..fadfc6a833 100644
>> --- a/parse-options.c
>> +++ b/parse-options.c
>> @@ -660,7 +660,8 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
>>   static int usage_argh(const struct option *opts, FILE *outfile)
>>   {
>>   	const char *s;
>> -	int literal = (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP) || !opts->argh;
>> +	int literal = (opts->flags & PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP) || !opts->argh ||
>> +		(opts->argh[0] == '<' && strchr(opts->argh, '>'));
> 
> You are greedier than what I thought ;-) I would have limited this
> magic to the case where argh is surrounded by "<>", but you allow
> one closing ">" anywhere, which allows us to grab more complex cases.

That's what I had initially, but only one of the current cases would
have benefited from that strict behavior, so it's not useful enough.

> The lack of escape hatch to decline this auto-literal magic makes me
> somewhat nervous, but I do not offhand think of a reason why I do
> want an arg-help string that _begins_ with '<' to be enclosed by
> another set of "<>", so perhaps this is a good kind of magic.

The escape hatch is to add the extra pair manually to the argh string.

René