[PATCH v2 09/12] fast-import: use struct option for usage string
Christian Couder <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 12:03:52 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.git |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Currently `git fast-import -h` shows the following on a single line:
usageĀ : git fast-import [--date-format=<f>] [--max-pack-size=<n>] \
[--big-file-threshold=<n>] [--depth=<n>] \
[--active-branches=<n>] \
[--export-marks=<marks.file>]
This output has a number of issues like:
- It's missing a lot of options.
- It's not consistent with the SYNOPSIS section of the doc.
- With `--help-all` instead of `-h` additional hidden options should
be shown, but that's not the case.
- It's not standard style anymore.
- Most other Git commands show additional lines for most of the
options they support.
Also while most commands use the parse-options API to handle their
options, "builtin/fast-import.c" still doesn't use it.
Let's improve on that by using the parse-options API to display the
options when `-h` and `--help-all` are used.
While at it, let's make the SYNOPSIS section of
"Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc" consistent with the new usage
string.
This deliberately leaves it to future work to also use the
parse-options API to actually parse the options.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc | 2 +-
builtin/fast-import.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches | 1 -
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
index d68bc52b7e..7c5900e048 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-frontend | 'git fast-import' [<options>]
+'git fast-import' [<options>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/builtin/fast-import.c b/builtin/fast-import.c
index 926afde954..bf72adf62b 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-import.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-import.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include "khash.h"
#include "date.h"
#include "gpg-interface.h"
+#include "parse-options.h"
#define PACK_ID_BITS 16
#define MAX_PACK_ID ((1<<PACK_ID_BITS)-1)
@@ -277,16 +278,18 @@ struct fast_import_state {
const char *prefix;
int seen_data_command;
int allow_unsafe_features;
+ struct option *option;
};
static void fast_import_state_init(struct fast_import_state *state,
int argc, const char **argv,
- const char *prefix)
+ const char *prefix, struct option *option)
{
memset(state, 0, sizeof(*state));
state->argc = argc;
state->argv = argv;
state->prefix = prefix;
+ state->option = option;
}
static void parse_argv(struct fast_import_state *state);
@@ -3935,8 +3938,10 @@ static void git_pack_config(void)
repo_config(the_repository, git_default_config, NULL);
}
-static const char fast_import_usage[] =
-"git fast-import [--date-format=<f>] [--max-pack-size=<n>] [--big-file-threshold=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--active-branches=<n>] [--export-marks=<marks.file>]";
+static const char *const fast_import_usage[] = {
+ N_("git fast-import [<options>]"),
+ NULL
+};
static void parse_argv(struct fast_import_state *state)
{
@@ -3965,7 +3970,7 @@ static void parse_argv(struct fast_import_state *state)
die(_("unknown option --%s"), a);
}
if (i != state->argc)
- usage(fast_import_usage);
+ usage_with_options(fast_import_usage, state->option);
state->seen_data_command = 1;
if (import_marks_file)
@@ -3980,9 +3985,75 @@ int cmd_fast_import(int argc,
{
struct fast_import_state state;
- show_usage_if_asked(argc, argv, fast_import_usage);
+ unsigned long pack_size_limit, big_file_threshold;
+ char *edges, *signed_commits, *signed_tags, *date_format;
+ char *import_marks_if_exists, *submodules_from, *submodules_to;
- fast_import_state_init(&state, argc, argv, prefix);
+ /*
+ * NEEDSWORK: For now this is used only to render
+ * `-h`/`--help-all` usage messages. The actual parsing is
+ * done by parse_one_option()/parse_one_feature().
+ */
+ struct option fast_import_options[] = {
+ OPT_GROUP(N_("Common")),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "date-format", &date_format, N_("fmt"),
+ N_("format of the commit/tag dates"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_BOOL_F(0, "stats", &show_stats,
+ N_("display some basic statistics (objects, packfiles and memory)"),
+ PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_BOOL_F(0, "quiet", &quiet,
+ N_("disable the output shown by --stats"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_BOOL_F(0, "force", &force_update,
+ N_("force updating modified existing branches"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_BOOL_F(0, "done", &require_explicit_termination,
+ N_("require a terminating 'done' command"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_UNSIGNED(0, "max-pack-size", &pack_size_limit,
+ N_("maximum size of each output pack file")),
+ OPT_UNSIGNED(0, "big-file-threshold", &big_file_threshold,
+ N_("maximum size of a blob that will be deltified")),
+ OPT_UNSIGNED(0, "depth", &max_depth,
+ N_("maximum delta depth")),
+ OPT_UNSIGNED(0, "active-branches", &max_active_branches,
+ N_("maximum number of branches to maintain active")),
+ OPT_GROUP(N_("Marks")),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "import-marks", &import_marks_file, N_("file"),
+ N_("import marks from <file>"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "import-marks-if-exists", &import_marks_if_exists, N_("file"),
+ N_("import marks from <file> if it exists"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "export-marks", &export_marks_file, N_("file"),
+ N_("dump marks to <file>"), PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "relative-marks", &relative_marks_paths,
+ N_("are --(import|export)-marks= paths relative to '.git/info/fast-import'?")),
+ OPT_GROUP(N_("Submodule rewrite")),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "rewrite-submodules-from", &submodules_from, N_("name:filename"),
+ N_("rewrite object IDs for submodule <name> from <filename>"),
+ PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "rewrite-submodules-to", &submodules_to, N_("name:filename"),
+ N_("rewrite object IDs for submodule <name> to <filename>"),
+ PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_GROUP(N_("Signing")),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "signed-commits", &signed_commits, N_("mode"),
+ N_("how to handle signed commits"),
+ PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "signed-tags", &signed_tags, N_("mode"),
+ N_("how to handle signed tags"),
+ PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP(N_("Advanced")),
+ OPT_BOOL_F(0, "allow-unsafe-features", &state.allow_unsafe_features,
+ N_("allow unsafe mark commands from the stream"),
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_STRING_F(0, "export-pack-edges", &edges, N_("file"),
+ N_("dump edge commits to <file>"),
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_INTEGER_F(0, "cat-blob-fd", &cat_blob_fd,
+ N_("write some responses to <fd> instead of stdout"),
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
+ OPT_END()
+ };
+
+ show_usage_with_options_if_asked(argc, argv, fast_import_usage, fast_import_options);
+
+ fast_import_state_init(&state, argc, argv, prefix, fast_import_options);
reset_pack_idx_option(&pack_idx_opts);
git_pack_config();
diff --git a/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches b/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
index c4a55ff4e3..baf3b1d809 100644
--- a/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
+++ b/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ column
credential
credential-cache
credential-store
-fast-import
fetch-pack
fmt-merge-msg
format-patch
--
2.55.0.492.g44bba30fd7.dirty