parse-options: support unit factors in `OPT_INTEGER()`

There are two main differences between `OPT_INTEGER()` and `OPT_MAGNITUDE()`: - The former parses signed integers whereas the latter parses unsigned integers. - The latter parses unit factors like 'k', 'm' or 'g'. While the first difference makes obvious sense, there isn't really a good reason why signed integers shouldn't support unit factors, too. This inconsistency will also become a bit of a problem with subsequent commits, where we will fix a couple of callsites that pass an unsigned integer to `OPT_INTEGER()`. There are three options: - We could adapt those users to instead pass a signed integer, but this would needlessly extend the range of accepted integer values. - We could convert them to use `OPT_MAGNITUDE()`, as it only accepts unsigned integers. But now we have the inconsistency that we also start to accept unit factors. - We could introduce `OPT_UNSIGNED()` as equivalent to `OPT_INTEGER()` so that it knows to only accept unsigned integers without unit suffix. Introducing a whole new option type feels a bit excessive. There also isn't really a good reason why `OPT_INTEGER()` cannot be extended to also accept unit factors: all valid values passed to such options cannot have a unit factors right now, so there wouldn't be any ambiguity. Refactor `OPT_INTEGER()` to use `git_parse_int()`, which knows to interpret unit factors. This removes the inconsistency between the signed and unsigned options so that we can easily fix up callsites that pass the wrong integer type right now. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Patrick Steinhardt committed Apr 17, 2025 at 12:49 UTC 8ff1a34bdfef0a0689130508388325af1db38237
3 files changed +11 -7
Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.adoc
+4 -2
@@ -211,8 +211,10 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
211 Use of `--no-option` will clear the list of preceding values.
212
213 `OPT_INTEGER(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
214 - Introduce an option with integer argument.
215 - The integer is put into `int_var`.
214 + Introduce an option with integer argument. The argument must be a
215 + integer and may include a suffix of 'k', 'm' or 'g' to
216 + scale the provided value by 1024, 1024^2 or 1024^3 respectively.
217 + The scaled value is put into `int_var`.
218
219 `OPT_MAGNITUDE(short, long, &unsigned_long_var, description)`::
220 Introduce an option with a size argument. The argument must be a
parse-options.c
+4 -4
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static enum parse_opt_result do_get_value(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p,
73 enum opt_parsed flags,
74 const char **argp)
75 {
76 - const char *s, *arg;
76 + const char *arg;
77 const int unset = flags & OPT_UNSET;
78 int err;
79
@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ static enum parse_opt_result do_get_value(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p,
185 if (!*arg)
186 return error(_("%s expects a numerical value"),
187 optname(opt, flags));
188 - *(int *)opt->value = strtol(arg, (char **)&s, 10);
189 - if (*s)
190 - return error(_("%s expects a numerical value"),
188 + if (!git_parse_int(arg, opt->value))
189 + return error(_("%s expects an integer value"
190 + " with an optional k/m/g suffix"),
191 optname(opt, flags));
192 return 0;
193
t/t0040-parse-options.sh
+3 -1
@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ test_expect_success 'OPT_BOOL() no negation #2' 'check_unknown_i18n --no-no-fear
111
112 test_expect_success 'OPT_BOOL() positivation' 'check boolean: 0 -D --doubt'
113
114 -test_expect_success 'OPT_INT() negative' 'check integer: -2345 -i -2345'
114 +test_expect_success 'OPT_INTEGER() negative' 'check integer: -2345 -i -2345'
115 +test_expect_success 'OPT_INTEGER() kilo' 'check integer: 239616 -i 234k'
116 +test_expect_success 'OPT_INTEGER() negative kilo' 'check integer: -239616 -i -234k'
117
118 test_expect_success 'OPT_MAGNITUDE() simple' '
119 check magnitude: 2345678 -m 2345678