Merge branch 'js/parseopt-abbrev-fix'

* js/parseopt-abbrev-fix:
  parse-options: abbreviation engine fix.

parse-options.c

@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ static int parse_long_opt(struct optparse_t *p, const char *arg,
                           const struct option *options)
 {
 	const char *arg_end = strchr(arg, '=');
-	const struct option *abbrev_option = NULL;
-	int abbrev_flags = 0;
+	const struct option *abbrev_option = NULL, *ambiguous_option = NULL;
+	int abbrev_flags = 0, ambiguous_flags = 0;
 
 	if (!arg_end)
 		arg_end = arg + strlen(arg);
@@ -137,16 +137,16 @@ static int parse_long_opt(struct optparse_t *p, const char *arg,
 			/* abbreviated? */
 			if (!strncmp(options->long_name, arg, arg_end - arg)) {
 is_abbreviated:
-				if (abbrev_option)
-					return error("Ambiguous option: %s "
-						"(could be --%s%s or --%s%s)",
-						arg,
-						(flags & OPT_UNSET) ?
-							"no-" : "",
-						options->long_name,
-						(abbrev_flags & OPT_UNSET) ?
-							"no-" : "",
-						abbrev_option->long_name);
+				if (abbrev_option) {
+					/*
+					 * If this is abbreviated, it is
+					 * ambiguous. So when there is no
+					 * exact match later, we need to
+					 * error out.
+					 */
+					ambiguous_option = abbrev_option;
+					ambiguous_flags = abbrev_flags;
+				}
 				if (!(flags & OPT_UNSET) && *arg_end)
 					p->opt = arg_end + 1;
 				abbrev_option = options;
@@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ static int parse_long_opt(struct optparse_t *p, const char *arg,
 		}
 		return get_value(p, options, flags);
 	}
+
+	if (ambiguous_option)
+		return error("Ambiguous option: %s "
+			"(could be --%s%s or --%s%s)",
+			arg,
+			(ambiguous_flags & OPT_UNSET) ?  "no-" : "",
+			ambiguous_option->long_name,
+			(abbrev_flags & OPT_UNSET) ?  "no-" : "",
+			abbrev_option->long_name);
 	if (abbrev_option)
 		return get_value(p, abbrev_option, abbrev_flags);
 	return error("unknown option `%s'", arg);

t/t0040-parse-options.sh

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ string options
     -s, --string <string>
                           get a string
     --string2 <str>       get another string
+    --st <st>             get another string (pervert ordering)
 
 EOF
 
@@ -90,4 +91,16 @@ test_expect_failure 'ambiguously abbreviated option' '
         test $? != 129
 '
 
+cat > expect << EOF
+boolean: 0
+integer: 0
+string: 123
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'non ambiguous option (after two options it abbreviates)' '
+	test-parse-options --st 123 > output 2> output.err &&
+	test ! -s output.err &&
+	git diff expect output
+'
+
 test_done

test-parse-options.c

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 		OPT_GROUP("string options"),
 		OPT_STRING('s', "string", &string, "string", "get a string"),
 		OPT_STRING(0, "string2", &string, "str", "get another string"),
+		OPT_STRING(0, "st", &string, "st", "get another string (pervert ordering)"),
 		OPT_END(),
 	};
 	int i;