From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:13:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: correct help string for --exclude-standard
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AW4=tsFLDcJb=is5UUdVyyFPD+AHi1v-xX=qCXLL_N2g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150304101606.GB15788@peff.net>

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