From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:27:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080603222704.GA20256@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4845B4E8.1040402@trolltech.com>
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +0200, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> You are right. This is the joy of the parse-options() handling of
> short-options with optional arguments.
>
> -us before meant:
> 1) commit
> 2) show all untracked files
> 3) sign-of the commit
>
> I guess it would be possible to reparse the options without the -u, if
> the argument is not one of the three (none,normal,all), but I'm not sure
> it's _that_ critical. Opinions?
I think it would be reasonable to make "-u" mean the same as always, and
for "--untracked-files" to have an optional argument. There isn't direct
support for that construct in parse_options, but you could just make it
two separate options that happen to tweak the same value (though I guess
they would be displayed separately in the auto-generated usage).
Some GNU utils use this strategy to extend existing options. E.g., "ls
-p" comes from XSI and takes no argument, but the long-option form of
--indicator-style=<none|slash|file-type|classify> gives more options.
That makes it a little less pleasant to type the extended version, but
compatibility is maintained. Though I tend to wonder about this option
in particular...isn't this generally a user preference? Should it
perhaps be found in the config file instead?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 9:29 [PATCH] Ensure that commit/status don't stat all files when core.ignoreStat = true Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-27 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-27 20:21 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 8:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce core.showUntrackedFiles to make it possible to disable showing of untracked files Simon Hausmann
2008-05-30 12:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add shortcut in refresh_cache_ent() for marked entries Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 13:14 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce core.showUntrackedFiles to make it possible to disable showing of untracked files Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 13:16 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-30 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-31 6:41 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-03 13:09 ` [PATCH] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-03 13:12 ` [PATCH] Add configuration option for default untracked files mode Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-03 20:02 ` [PATCH] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 21:00 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 8:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 12:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add configuration option for default untracked files mode Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-07 1:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option Junio C Hamano
2008-06-09 6:54 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 8:31 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 12:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-05 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add configuration option for default untracked files mode Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-10 6:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option Junio C Hamano
2008-06-03 20:14 ` [PATCH] " Jeff King
2008-06-03 21:17 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-03 22:27 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-06-03 22:26 ` しらいしななこ
[not found] ` <200806032227.m53MRLeD005668@mi0.bluebottle.com>
2008-06-03 22:53 ` Jeff King
2008-06-06 6:32 ` Alex Riesen
2008-06-06 6:56 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
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