parse-options-cb: implement parse_opt_passthru()

Certain git commands, such as git-pull, are simply wrappers around other
git commands like git-fetch, git-merge and git-rebase. As such, these
wrapper commands will typically need to "pass through" command-line
options of the commands they wrap.

Implement the parse_opt_passthru() parse-options callback, which will
reconstruct the command-line option into an char* string, such that it
can be passed to another git command.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 1f2db3131..85d10abb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -212,6 +212,13 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
 	Use it to hide deprecated options that are still to be recognized
 	and ignored silently.
 
+`OPT_PASSTHRU(short, long, &char_var, arg_str, description, flags)`::
+	Introduce an option that will be reconstructed into a char* string,
+	which must be initialized to NULL. This is useful when you need to
+	pass the command-line option to another command. Any previous value
+	will be overwritten, so this should only be used for options where
+	the last one specified on the command line wins.
+
 
 The last element of the array must be `OPT_END()`.