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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] add, update-index: fix --chmod argument help
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:17:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeffgzcw5.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b6fa9ca-97ad-74e8-f252-cc62470f5946@ramsayjones.plus.com> (Ramsay Jones's message of "Thu, 2 Aug 2018 21:59:44 +0100")

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:

>>  	OPT_BOOL( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, N_("check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run")),
>> -	OPT_STRING( 0 , "chmod", &chmod_arg, N_("(+/-)x"), N_("override the executable bit of the listed files")),
>> +	{ OPTION_STRING, 0, "chmod", &chmod_arg, "(+|-)x",
>
> Am I alone in thinking that "(+x|-x)" is more readable?

I think I am guilty of that, and I agree yours is much easier to
read.

It can of course come on top of the series.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02 21:17 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
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 [this message]
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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