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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git commit file completion recently broke
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:24:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8teeftn7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD3iL_sRgvhm7YO_jVG5RiNn1=JRW0qvhBEPcUtCorWdYA@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:14:31 +0100")

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

>> I do think it may make sense for
>> the "short" one to use NULL, like:
>>
>>   skip_to_optional_val(arg, "--relative, &arg)
>>
>> but maybe some other callers would be more inconvenienced (they may have
>> to current NULL back into the empty string if they want to string
>> "--foo" the same as "--foo=").
>
> I discussed that with Junio and yeah there are many callers that want
> "--foo" to be the same as "--foo=".

Yup, the original thread has details and me saying that assuming all
of them want --foo and --foo= the same is questionable.  The likely
fix would be to use the _default variant with NULL, which was added
exactly for cases like this.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-06 23:53 git commit file completion recently broke Jacob Keller
2017-12-07  0:01 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-07  0:08   ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-07  0:22   ` Jeff King
2017-12-07  0:24     ` Jeff King
2017-12-07  0:38       ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-07  0:56         ` Jeff King
2017-12-07  1:04           ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-07  1:08             ` Jeff King
2017-12-07  8:14           ` Christian Couder
2017-12-07  8:19             ` Jeff King
2017-12-07 15:24             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-07 18:57               ` Jacob Keller

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