From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: fix parsing of "--foobar=" with no value Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:05:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1216752267-12138-1-git-send-email-dkr+ml.git@free.fr> <20080722185427.GA10453@artemis.madism.org> <48863436.50309@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Pierre Habouzit , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Olivier Marin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 22 22:06:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLO7Y-0005ac-JY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:06:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751666AbYGVUFF (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:05:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbYGVUFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:05:04 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59530 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751323AbYGVUFD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:05:03 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2008 20:05:01 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 22 Jul 2008 22:05:01 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19CYdNy8KFCATOo7Rquy8aimPiroynQQqmpIlFdww T4WSEtsAaqIOF9 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <48863436.50309@free.fr> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.73 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Olivier Marin wrote: > I would have find it convenient for things like --foobar=$var where foobar > fallback to default when $var is empty. --foobar=${var:-default} will expand to --foobar=default when $var is empty. Hth, Dscho