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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Allow '--inherit' as the negation of
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On 11/19/13, 1:12 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 18/11/13 23:15, David Ahern wrote:
>> Why not cleanup the options for the commands and move all of the no-xxxx to
>> just xxxx? Anyone using no-xxxx would still just work by the existing code.
>
> Interesting idea but the short and long options are a combination, and short
> options don't work the same way e.g. -i and --no-inherit go together.
>

If inherit is on by default and -i / --inherit is the option then -i is 
a no-op and --no-inherit disables it. That's the same effect has having 
inherit on by default and an option to disable it called --no-inherit.

David