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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ignacy Gawedzki" <ignacy.gawedzki@green-communications.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ls-remote: remove documentation for custom -h option
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:17:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbl4hvnxa.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210924171113.GA3311029@szeder.dev> ("SZEDER Gábor"'s message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:11:13 +0200")

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 06:51:45PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> The custom handling of the "-h" option was broken in
>> ba5f28bf79e (ls-remote: use parse-options api, 2016-01-19), first
>> released with Git v2.8.0. We've been promising that it's a synonym of
>> --head, but it's not.
>> 
>> We could make this work again by supplying the
>> PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP flag to parse_options(), but if we were
>> writing this command today we wouldn't make this an exception. Since
>> it's been such a long time let's just remove this rather than
>> restoring the exception to "-h" handling.
>
> This breaks the case when '-h' is used in combination with a remote:

Yes, I think I covered this in my response to Ignacy.  Perhaps Ævar
can read it before rerolling this series.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-24 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24 14:19 Wrong option -h in grep, ls-remote, and show-ref Ignacy Gawedzki
2021-09-24 16:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] show-ref, ls-remote, grep: fix -h handling Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 16:51   ` [PATCH 1/3] show-ref: remove unused custom handling of -h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 19:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 20:53       ` René Scharfe
2021-09-24 21:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 16:51   ` [PATCH 2/3] ls-remote: remove documentation for custom -h option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 17:11     ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-09-24 17:54       ` Jeff King
2021-09-24 18:17       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-24 16:51   ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: pass PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP, fix odd -h handling Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 18:12 ` Wrong option -h in grep, ls-remote, and show-ref Junio C Hamano

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