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Re: [PATCH 2/3] config: set help text for --bool-or-int

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 21:07 UTC
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> The conversion to parse_opt left this as NULL; on glibc
> systems, the usage message prints
>
>   --bool-or-int   (null)
>
> and on other ones, segfaults.
Shouldn't then OPT_BIT make sure there is no crash?

I was surprised when it didn't complain. I thought on making it "" but I wanted to make it visible that there was no documentation for that, which is the reason I left it that way.

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 4 of 9 in “config --bool-or-int fixes”
  1. 0/3 config --bool-or-int fixesJeff King, Mar 7, 2009
  2. 1/3 t1300: use test_must_fail as appropriateJeff King, Mar 7, 2009
  3. 2/3 config: set help text for --bool-or-intJeff King, Mar 7, 2009
  4. Felipe ContrerasMar 7, 2009
  5. Jeff KingMar 7, 2009
  6. Felipe ContrerasMar 9, 2009
  7. Jeff KingMar 10, 2009
  8. 3/3 document config --bool-or-intJeff King, Mar 7, 2009
  9. Jeff KingMar 7, 2009

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