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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'git branch --no-merge' is ambiguous
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:01:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24oqo3jg1.fsf@whitebox.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090927073305.GA15393@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:33:06 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> -- >8 --
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] parse-opt: ignore negation of OPT_NONEG for ambiguity checks
>
> parse_long_opt always matches both --opt and --no-opt for any option
> "opt", and only get_value checks whether --no-opt is actually valid.
> Since the options for git branch contains both "no-merged" and "merged"
> there are two matches for --no-merge, but no exact match.  With this
> patch the negation of a NONEG option is rejected earlier, but it changes
> the error message from "option `no-opt' isn't available" to "unknown
> option `no-opt'".
>
> [jk: added test]
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-27  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-25 10:28 'git branch --no-merge' is ambiguous Johannes Sixt
2009-09-25 18:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-27  7:33   ` Jeff King
2009-09-27  8:01     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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