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From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>,
	Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] parse-options: disallow --no-no-sth
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:06:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4E6912.7060204@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlinmy80x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 28.02.2012 22:15, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe<rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>  writes:
>
>> Now that options whose definition starts with "no-" can be negated
>> by removing said "no-", there is no need anymore to allow them to
>> be negated by adding a second "no-", which just looks silly.
>
> Thanks.  But accepting them silently and do what the user would have
> expected, especially if we do not advertise it, would not hurt anybody,
> no?

Yes, that's why I didn't include this fourth patch from the beginning. 
However, I understood your comment "Among the existing 13 that you
listed, I do not think there is any that tempts any existing user to ask
for negation with "--no-no-foo" form, so I think we should be Ok." to 
mean that nobody uses the double-no form of the existing negative 
options anyway, and therefore we should disallow it.

Please drop this extra patch if I misunderstood you, in order to keep 
backward compatibility.

René

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-25 19:07 [PATCH 0/3] parse-options: no- symmetry René Scharfe
2012-02-25 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-parse-options: convert to OPT_BOOL() René Scharfe
2012-02-25 19:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] parse-options: allow positivation of options starting, with no- René Scharfe
2012-02-26 23:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-27  8:30     ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-27 17:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-27 17:56         ` René Scharfe
2012-02-27 20:48           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-28 20:12             ` [PATCH 4/3] parse-options: disallow --no-no-sth René Scharfe
2012-02-28 21:15               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 18:06                 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2012-02-29 19:02                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-25 19:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] parse-options: remove PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP René Scharfe
2012-02-27 18:25   ` Jeff King
2012-02-27 18:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-27 22:26     ` René Scharfe
2012-02-28  0:34       ` Jeff King
2012-02-28 19:06   ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] " René Scharfe
2012-02-28 19:09     ` Jeff King

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