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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-opt: migrate builtin-checkout-index.
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:11:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabd073bg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224441040-5071-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org> (Miklos Vajna's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:30:40 +0200")

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
> ---
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 03:17:23AM +0200, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
>> > This adds a new feature to say --no-z from the command line, doesn't
>> > it?
>> > And I suspect the feature is broken ;-).
>>
>> Right, I fixed this in option_parse_z(). --no-z should set
>> line_termination to \n instead of 1.
>
> Originally in option_parse_z() I had
>
>         line_termination = unset;
>
> which is in fact right, because (as Pierre pointed out) unset for short
> options are always false, but I changed it to
>
>         line_termination = 0;
>
> to make it more readable.

I think Pierre's comment is short-sighted.  Think of what would happen
when somebody adds "--nul" as a longer equivalent to "-z", since it is
extremely easy to do things like that with the use of parse-opt API?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-19 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 22:55 [PATCH] parse-opt: migrate builtin-checkout-index Miklos Vajna
2008-10-16  8:23 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-16 13:28   ` [PATCH v2] " Miklos Vajna
2008-10-17 23:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-18  1:17       ` [PATCH] " Miklos Vajna
2008-10-19 18:30         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-19 18:31           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-19 20:11           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-10-19 20:19             ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-19 20:59               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-19 19:29         ` Raphael Zimmerer
2008-10-19 19:34           ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-19 21:45         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-18 15:54       ` [PATCH v2] " Pierre Habouzit

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