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Re: [PATCH] grep: correct help string for --exclude-standard

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2015, 11:13 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Hmm. If the default is "--exclude-standard", then what expect people to
> use is "--no-exclude-standard". Would it make more sense to list that in
> the "-h" output?

I thought about it and actually edited git-grep man page to clarify the default, only to find out this. When --untracked is used, --exclude-standard is the default. When --no-index is used, --no-exclude-standard is the default. Can't have it both ways. This is already mentioned with the subtle phrase "only useful with...".

> It might be nice if parseopt had a PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP option or something
> to show the "--no-" form.

Regardless, yes it would be nice to have something like this. I think there are places that can make use of this.

-- 
Duy
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