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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 17:16:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80e861f0-717e-6678-ff1d-0c1198cb9c6f@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7e5f54d-04b6-4d0f-0bcb-692801f0719c@web.de>

Am 02.08.2018 um 17:06 schrieb René Scharfe:
> According to its manpage the option should rather be shown like this:
> 
> 	--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]
> 
> ... to indicate that all three forms are valid:
> 
> 	--force-with-lease
> 	--force-with-lease=some_ref
> 	--force-with-lease=some_ref:but_not_this
> 
> The current code doesn't allow that to be expressed, while it's possible
> with my patch.
Err, anything is possible with PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, of course, but
with my patch that flag is automatically inferred if you use the argh
string "<refname>[:<expect>]".

René

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-01 18:43 [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 20:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-01 21:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 22:31     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 12:16       ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 14:21         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 15:06           ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 15:16             ` René Scharfe [this message]
2018-08-02 15:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 16:50           ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 16:54           ` Jeff King
2018-08-02 18:46             ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17               ` [PATCH 1/6] add, update-index: fix --chmod argument help René Scharfe
2018-08-02 20:41                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 20:59                 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-08-02 21:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 21:04                 ` Andrei Rybak
2018-08-02 21:16                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 19:17               ` [PATCH 2/6] difftool: remove angular brackets from " René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17               ` [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: specify --index-version argument help explicitly René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17               ` [PATCH 4/6] send-pack: specify --force-with-lease " René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:18               ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: correct option help for -w René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:18               ` [PATCH 6/6] parse-options: automatically infer PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP René Scharfe
2018-08-02 20:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03  8:13                 ` Kerry, Richard
2018-08-03 10:39                 ` Kerry, Richard
2018-08-02 20:01               ` [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 22:38                 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-03 15:29                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:44     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:59       ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 16:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 20:33           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 20:36             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03  4:42               ` René Scharfe
2018-08-03 15:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 22:57 ` Jonathan Nieder

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