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Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] parse-options: remove PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 28, 2012, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20120228190936.GC11260@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<4F4D25A1.8050702@lsrfire.ath.cx>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:06:09PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
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> PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP is confusing because short options defined with that
> flag do the opposite of what the helptext says. It is also not needed
> anymore now that options starting with no- can be negated by removing
> that prefix. Convert its only two users to OPT_NEGBIT() and OPT_BOOL()
> and then remove support for PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
> ---
> This version doesn't invert the logic in grep anymore.
Thanks, I like this one much better.
-Peff
Previous: René Scharfe
Message 19 of 19 in “parse-options: no- symmetry”
  1. 0/3 parse-options: no- symmetryRené Scharfe, Feb 25, 2012
  2. 1/3 test-parse-options: convert to OPT_BOOL()René Scharfe, Feb 25, 2012
  3. 2/3 parse-options: allow positivation of options starting, with no-René Scharfe, Feb 25, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2012
  5. Thomas RastFeb 27, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2012
  7. René ScharfeFeb 27, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2012
  9. 4/3 parse-options: disallow --no-no-sthRené Scharfe, Feb 28, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2012
  11. René ScharfeFeb 29, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2012
  13. 3/3 parse-options: remove PARSE_OPT_NEGHELPRené Scharfe, Feb 25, 2012
  14. Jeff KingFeb 27, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2012
  16. René ScharfeFeb 27, 2012
  17. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2012
  18. 3/3 parse-options: remove PARSE_OPT_NEGHELPRené Scharfe, Feb 28, 2012
  19. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2012

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