From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:53:17 GMT
Subject: Re: parse-options does not recognize "unspecified" behavior
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbbAv=PukD+sftmoO8u3GX=S1YCYGV8zcNMxrZ+E41-UA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160316214442.GC4441@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:37:03PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>> A much easier solution would be to update OPT_VERBOSE() to understand
>> that negative values are "unspecified", and then --verbose would
>> (pseudocode):
>>
>>     if (value < 0)
>>         value = 0
>>     value++;
>>
>> and --no-verbose would:
>>
>>     value = 0
>>
>> That should be compatible with existing clients of OPT__VERBOSE()
>> which initialize the value to 0, and should satisfy Pranit's case; he
>> can initialize it to -1, and if it is still -1 when option parsing is
>> done, then he knows that neither --verbose nor --no-verbose was seen.
>
> Yes, that makes much more sense to me. Thanks for the back-story.
>
> -Peff

Is there any command which needs more than one --no-verbose?
(as an abuse to stacking --quiet multiple times)?