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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Microproject idea: new OPT_* macros for PARSE_OPT_NONEG
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:39:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <531977AF.4060907@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CBVVJN3V8N_djLF4XKfTbxvdcJCnWmZJxVZOwy8AMQWA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/07/2014 02:38 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> Currently in order to avoid --[no]-xxx form we have to resort to
> declare full struct option. It'd be nice to have a set of OPT_* macros
> with PARSE_OPT_NONEG set. Find and update all "struct option []"
> declarations with the new macros (including ones that should never
> accept --no- form, but do anyway).

I added this to the list, with the following warning:

    This is more a milliproject than a microproject

because to me it feels considerably more involved than the other
microprojects.  To  complete it, the student will have to understand at
least part of the parse_options() API, which is more than a 15 minute
job by itself.

Thanks,
Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-07  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-07  1:38 Microproject idea: new OPT_* macros for PARSE_OPT_NONEG Duy Nguyen
2014-03-07  7:39 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2014-03-07  7:54   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-07 19:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-12 23:37       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-13 19:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-13 23:34           ` Duy Nguyen

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