From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: warn developers on negated options
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:52:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8thsa901.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170905230845.17108-1-sbeller@google.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:08:45 -0700")
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> This patch disallows all no- options, but we could be more open and allow
> --no-options that have the NO_NEG bit set.
"--no-foo" that does not take "--foo" is perhaps OK so should not
trigger an error.
A ("--no-foo", "--foo") pair is better spelled as ("--foo",
"--no-foo") pair whose default is "--foo", but making it an error is
probably a bit too much.
Compared to that, ("--no-foo", "--no-no-foo") pair feels nonsense.
Having said that, because the existing parse_options_check() is all
about catching the programming mistake (the end user cannot fix an
error from it by tweaking the command line option s/he gives to the
program), I do not think a conditional compilation like you added
mixes well. Either make the whole thing, not just your new test,
conditional to -DDEVELOPER (which would make it possible for you to
build and ship a binary with broken options[] array to the end-users
that does not die in this function), which is undesirable, or add a
new test that catches a definite error unconditionally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-06 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 21:01 [PATCH] builtin/merge: honor commit-msg hook for merges Stefan Beller
2017-09-05 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH] parse-options: warn developers on negated options Stefan Beller
2017-09-06 1:52 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-09-06 3:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-06 21:36 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-06 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-05 23:29 ` [PATCHv2] builtin/merge: honor commit-msg hook for merges Stefan Beller
2017-09-06 1:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-06 22:11 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-06 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-07 22:04 ` [PATCHv3] " Stefan Beller
2017-09-08 1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-11 17:12 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-16 6:22 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-20 19:55 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-21 1:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-21 20:29 ` [PATCH] Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook Stefan Beller
2017-09-22 1:58 ` Junio C Hamano
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