On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 13:07 -0400, John Brooks wrote:
> The boolean --color argument did not offer the ability to force colourized
> output even if stdout is not a terminal. Change the format of the argument
> to the familiar --color[=WHEN] construct as seen in common Linux utilities
> such as ls and dmesg, which allows the user to specify whether to colourize
> output always, never, or only when the output is a terminal ("auto").
>
> Because the option is no longer boolean, --nocolor (or --no-color) is no
> longer available. Users of the old negative option should use --color=never
> instead.
It is possible to add --nocolor and --no-color to the
arguments for GetOptions to keep the old behavior intact.
I think this works:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4b9569fa931b..372d541c2c46 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ my $codespell = 0;
my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch";
my $typedefsfile = "";
-my $color = 1;
+my $color = "auto";
my $allow_c99_comments = 1;
sub help {
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ Options:
(default:/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt)
--codespellfile Use this codespell dictionary
--typedefsfile Read additional types from this file
- --color Use colors when output is STDOUT (default: on)
+ --color[=WHEN] Use colors 'always', 'never', or only when output
+ is a terminal ('auto'). Default is 'auto'.
-h, --help, --version display this help and exit
When FILE is - read standard input.
@@ -181,6 +182,14 @@ if (-f $conf) {
unshift(@ARGV, @conf_args) if @conf_args;
}
+# Perl's Getopt::Long allows options to take optional arguments after a space.
+# Prevent --color by itself from consuming other arguments
+foreach (@ARGV) {
+ if ($_ eq "--color" || $_ eq "-color") {
+ $_ = "--color=$color";
+ }
+}
+
GetOptions(
'q|quiet+' => \$quiet,
'tree!' => \$tree,
@@ -211,7 +220,9 @@ GetOptions(
'codespell!' => \$codespell,
'codespellfile=s' => \$codespellfile,
'typedefsfile=s' => \$typedefsfile,
- 'color!' => \$color,
+ 'color=s' => \$color,
+ '-no-color!' => \$color, #keep old behaviors of -nocolor
+ '-nocolor!' => \$color, #keep old behaviors of -nocolor
'h|help' => \$help,
'version' => \$help
) or help(1);
@@ -237,6 +248,18 @@ if ($#ARGV < 0) {
push(@ARGV, '-');
}
+if ($color =~ /^[01]$/) {
+ $color = !$color;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^always$/i) {
+ $color = 1;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^never$/i) {
+ $color = 0;
+} elsif ($color =~ /^auto$/i) {
+ $color = (-t STDOUT);
+} else {
+ die "Invalid color mode: $color\n";
+}
+
sub hash_save_array_words {
my ($hashRef, $arrayRef) = @_;
@@ -1881,7 +1904,7 @@ sub report {
return 0;
}
my $output = '';
- if (-t STDOUT && $color) {
+ if ($color) {
if ($level eq 'ERROR') {
$output .= RED;
} elsif ($level eq 'WARNING') {
@@ -1892,10 +1915,10 @@ sub report {
}
$output .= $prefix . $level . ':';
if ($show_types) {
- $output .= BLUE if (-t STDOUT && $color);
+ $output .= BLUE if ($color);
$output .= "$type:";
}
- $output .= RESET if (-t STDOUT && $color);
+ $output .= RESET if ($color);
$output .= ' ' . $msg . "\n";
if ($showfile) {
