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[PATCH] grep: reject --no-or

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Sep 7, 2023, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID
<6aeb0ebe-0fea-ccd3-089a-ee0b5b5baf10@web.de>

Since 3e230fa1b2 (grep: use parseopt, 2009-05-07) git grep has been accepting the option --no-or. It does the same as --or: nothing. That's confusing and unintended. Forbid negating --or.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 builtin/grep.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 50e712a184..2a261074f1 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "and", &opt, NULL,
 			N_("combine patterns specified with -e"),
 			PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG, and_callback),
-		OPT_BOOL(0, "or", &dummy, ""),
+		OPT_BOOL_F(0, "or", &dummy, "", PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
 		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "not", &opt, NULL, "",
 			PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG, not_callback),
 		OPT_CALLBACK_F('(', NULL, &opt, NULL, "",
--
2.42.0
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