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Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] Help.c use OPT_COUNTUP

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Mar 3, 2013, 23:44 UTC
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From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] Help.c use OPT_COUNTUP
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> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> rename deprecated option in preparation for 'git help --guides'.
>
> s/rename/Rename/;
OK.
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>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
>> ---
>
> Hrm, I do not recall anybody ever declared that "--all" is deprecated.

No, it was the use OPT_COUNTUP rather than OPT_BOOLEAN that the 'deprecated' was refering to. Maybe be I should have extended what option was being refered to.

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>
> I do not think we want --all and --all --all to be different, and we
> certainly do not want --all --no-all to be not-all, so I cannot tell
> what you want to achieve with this change at all, either from the
> patch or the proposed log message.
>
>>  builtin/help.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
>> index d1d7181..d10cbed 100644
>> --- a/builtin/help.c
>> +++ b/builtin/help.c
>> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int show_all = 0;
>>  static unsigned int colopts;
>>  static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
>>  static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
>> - OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available 
>> commands")),
>> + OPT_COUNTUP('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available 
>> commands")),
>>  OPT_SET_INT('m', "man", &help_format, N_("show man page"), 
>> HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
>>  OPT_SET_INT('w', "web", &help_format, N_("show manual in web 
>> browser"),
>>  HELP_FORMAT_WEB),
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Message 6 of 15 in “Git help option to list user guides”
  1. 0/5 Git help option to list user guidesPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  2. 1/5 Show 'git help <guide>' usage, with examplesPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  4. 2/5 Help.c use OPT_COUNTUPPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  6. Philip OakleyMar 3, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2013
  8. Philip OakleyMar 4, 2013
  9. 3/5 Help.c add --guide optionPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  11. Philip OakleyMar 3, 2013
  12. 4/5 Help.c: add list_common_guides_help() functionPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  13. 5/5 Help doc: Include --guide option descriptionPhilip Oakley, Mar 3, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  15. Philip OakleyMar 4, 2013

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