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From: Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GSoC 2016 Microproject
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:02:35 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D46493.4040909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqpovfblru.fsf@anie.imag.fr>


>> First, I'm not quite sure what to put in the help message for the
>> options (--quiet, --stateless-rpc, --advertise-refs and
>> --reject-thin-pack-for-testing).
> They are currently undocumented. We sometimes have explicitly
> undocumented options (PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN) when they are used only
> internally to avoid polluting the end-user's UI.
>
> In this case, the command is anyway not meant for end-users so I think
> it would make sense to document them, but not necessarily within the the
> microproject.
So what may I put in the message parameter? I was thinking
perhaps the option itself, without hyphens. Would that be
correct?
>
>> Second, regarding the reject-thin-pack-for-testing option, currently
>> when the option is entered, `fix_thin` is unset
>> (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/receive-pack.c#L1736).
>> But using `OPT_BOOL(...)` for the same, the variable would instead be
>> set when the option is given. I think one solution can be to invert
>> `fix_thin` after calling `parse_options`. Am I going right so far?
>> Suggestions and corrections welcome.
> Or use OPT_SET_INT(..., 0) on a variable initialized to 1.
Okay, will do that.
>> Should I make a patch for this and submit it for discussion on the mailing list?
> On this list, it is indeed often more efficient to say "here's what I'm
> done. Any comments?" than "here's what I'm about to do".
>
I'm really sorry, I'm not very familiar with mailing list etiquettes.
I'll keep that in mind :)



Thanks and regards,
Sidhant Sharma [:tk]

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-27 13:04 GSoC 2016 Microproject Sidhant Sharma
2016-02-27 13:28 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-27 15:20   ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-02-27 16:12     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-28 10:12       ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-02-29 14:51         ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-02-29 15:04         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-29 15:32           ` Sidhant Sharma [this message]
2016-02-29 15:51             ` Matthieu Moy
2016-03-01 11:38               ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-01 12:22                 ` Thomas Gummerer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-19  8:59 GSoC 2016: Microproject Mehul Jain
2016-02-19 13:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 17:39   ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-19 17:50     ` Stefan Beller
2016-02-19 18:32       ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-20 14:43       ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-21  4:55         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-21 16:04           ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-21 18:52             ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-22  8:10               ` Karthik Nayak
2016-02-22 10:12               ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-22 10:20                 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-22 10:30                   ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-22 11:21                     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-22 12:28                       ` Mehul Jain
2016-02-22 10:21                 ` Lars Schneider
2016-02-22 10:30                   ` Lars Schneider
2016-02-21 16:02       ` Mehul Jain

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