Re: [PATCH] describe: fix --no-exact-match

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 8, 2023, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20230808212852.GA760815@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20230808212720.GA760752@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 05:27:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> So before I sent a patch (either to switch to using opt->value, or to
> add an UNUSED annotation), I wanted to see what you (or others) thought
> between the two. I.e., should we have a rule of "try not to operate on
> global data via option callbacks" or is that just being too pedantic for
> one-off callbacks like this?

Oh, and btw, the same situation exists for the "pack-objects --no-quiet" earlier in this thread (which is why I was trying to establish the general approach).

-Peff

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