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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: parse-options does not recognize "unspecified" behavior
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:53:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbbAv=PukD+sftmoO8u3GX=S1YCYGV8zcNMxrZ+E41-UA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160316214442.GC4441@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:37:03PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>> A much easier solution would be to update OPT_VERBOSE() to understand
>> that negative values are "unspecified", and then --verbose would
>> (pseudocode):
>>
>>     if (value < 0)
>>         value = 0
>>     value++;
>>
>> and --no-verbose would:
>>
>>     value = 0
>>
>> That should be compatible with existing clients of OPT__VERBOSE()
>> which initialize the value to 0, and should satisfy Pranit's case; he
>> can initialize it to -1, and if it is still -1 when option parsing is
>> done, then he knows that neither --verbose nor --no-verbose was seen.
>
> Yes, that makes much more sense to me. Thanks for the back-story.
>
> -Peff

Is there any command which needs more than one --no-verbose?
(as an abuse to stacking --quiet multiple times)?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 19:51 parse-options does not recognize "unspecified" behavior Pranit Bauva
2016-03-16 20:49 ` Jeff King
2016-03-16 21:06   ` Pranit Bauva
2016-03-16 21:23     ` Jeff King
2016-03-16 21:37       ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-16 21:41         ` Pranit Bauva
2016-03-16 21:44         ` Jeff King
2016-03-16 21:53           ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2016-03-16 23:16             ` Jeff King
2016-03-16 23:33               ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-17  1:43                 ` Jeff King
2016-03-17  5:32                   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-17  5:40                     ` Jeff King
2016-03-19 11:25                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-03-19 16:55                     ` Pranit Bauva
2016-03-25 14:58                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-03-25 15:03                         ` Pranit Bauva
2016-03-16 21:37       ` Pranit Bauva

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