merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries

Change the command-line '--log' option from a boolean option to an
integer option, and parse the optional integer provided on the
command-line into the 'shortlog_len' variable. Also update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
index 42021d327e..455e7c67f8 100644
--- a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
+++ b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
@@ -7,21 +7,24 @@
 #include "string-list.h"
 
 static const char * const fmt_merge_msg_usage[] = {
-	"git fmt-merge-msg [-m <message>] [--log|--no-log] [--file <file>]",
+	"git fmt-merge-msg [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>]|--no-log] [--file <file>]",
 	NULL
 };
 
-static int merge_summary;
+static int shortlog_len;
 
 static int fmt_merge_msg_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
 	static int found_merge_log = 0;
 	if (!strcmp("merge.log", key)) {
 		found_merge_log = 1;
-		merge_summary = git_config_bool(key, value);
+		shortlog_len = git_config_bool(key, value) ? DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN : 0;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	if (!found_merge_log && !strcmp("merge.summary", key)) {
+		shortlog_len = git_config_bool(key, value) ? DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN : 0;
+		return 0;
 	}
-	if (!found_merge_log && !strcmp("merge.summary", key))
-		merge_summary = git_config_bool(key, value);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -318,10 +321,13 @@ int cmd_fmt_merge_msg(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	const char *inpath = NULL;
 	const char *message = NULL;
 	struct option options[] = {
-		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "log",     &merge_summary, "populate log with the shortlog"),
-		{ OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "summary", &merge_summary, NULL,
+		{ OPTION_INTEGER, 0, "log", &shortlog_len, "n",
+		  "populate log with at most <n> entries from shortlog",
+		  PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN },
+		{ OPTION_INTEGER, 0, "summary", &shortlog_len, "n",
 		  "alias for --log (deprecated)",
-		  PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
+		  PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN, NULL,
+		  DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN },
 		OPT_STRING('m', "message", &message, "text",
 			"use <text> as start of message"),
 		OPT_FILENAME('F', "file", &inpath, "file to read from"),
@@ -337,12 +343,14 @@ int cmd_fmt_merge_msg(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			     0);
 	if (argc > 0)
 		usage_with_options(fmt_merge_msg_usage, options);
-	if (message && !merge_summary) {
+	if (message && !shortlog_len) {
 		char nl = '\n';
 		write_in_full(STDOUT_FILENO, message, strlen(message));
 		write_in_full(STDOUT_FILENO, &nl, 1);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (shortlog_len < 0)
+		die("Negative --log=%d", shortlog_len);
 
 	if (inpath && strcmp(inpath, "-")) {
 		in = fopen(inpath, "r");
@@ -357,7 +365,7 @@ int cmd_fmt_merge_msg(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		strbuf_addstr(&output, message);
 	ret = fmt_merge_msg(&input, &output,
 			    message ? 0 : 1,
-			    merge_summary ? DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN : 0);
+			    shortlog_len);
 
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;