parse-options-cb: implement parse_opt_passthru_argv()

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_argv() parse-options callback, which
will reconstruct all the provided command-line options into an
argv_array, such that it can be passed to another git command. This is
useful for passing command-line options that can be specified multiple
times.

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, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 85d10abb04..0b0ab019b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
 	will be overwritten, so this should only be used for options where
 	the last one specified on the command line wins.
 
+`OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV(short, long, &argv_array_var, arg_str, description, flags)`::
+	Introduce an option where all instances of it on the command-line will
+	be reconstructed into an argv_array. This is useful when you need to
+	pass the command-line option, which can be specified multiple times,
+	to another command.
+
 
 The last element of the array must be `OPT_END()`.