Re: [Outreachy PATCH v3 1/2] parse-options: answer --git-completion-helper before command runs

From: Tanga Joris <tangajoris@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2026, 22:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKrRMNoAALZ0V5fdKjZPQnCXuMP8y49vfUmxYnRt7UEeUTE7kA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <123de4e4-3387-4eef-8a05-9ed1ad1fce30@gmail.com>

Hello Kaartic,

Thank you so much for taking the time to review this.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 at 12:44, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Just a gentle reminder about this portion of the MyFirstContribution[1]:
>
>    It’s good manners to reply to each comment in the mailing list
>    discussion instead of letting the next version of your patch be your
>    only response. Tell the reviewer whether you plan to make the
>    suggested change, keep the original, or pursue a different approach.

Thanks for the reminder about replying to comments. I'll do that from now on.

> May be give a hint that you plan to do this in the following commit?
> That might give someone without context (for example someone reading the
> commit after a while) a hint about why you are worrying about marking
> fast-import with the NO_PARSEOPT flag.

Alright, I'll add a sentence to the commit message saying that the next commit removes the NO_PARSEOPT flag from fast-import, which would make "git fast-import --<TAB>" freeze without this patch.

> The change seems to be fine but I wonder if it is worth a note in
> parse-options.h about why show_usage_with_options_if_asked() is also
> handling the '--git-completion-helper' and '--git-completion-helper-all'
> arguments?

Yes, I think that would help, so I will add a short comment above its declaration in parse-options.h explaining that it answers these before the command does any work.

Thanks, Tanga