From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:01:18 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git branch --no-merge' is ambiguous
Message-ID: <m24oqo3jg1.fsf@whitebox.home>
In-Reply-To: <20090927073305.GA15393@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> -- >8 --
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] parse-opt: ignore negation of OPT_NONEG for ambiguity checks
>
> parse_long_opt always matches both --opt and --no-opt for any option
> "opt", and only get_value checks whether --no-opt is actually valid.
> Since the options for git branch contains both "no-merged" and "merged"
> there are two matches for --no-merge, but no exact match.  With this
> patch the negation of a NONEG option is rejected earlier, but it changes
> the error message from "option `no-opt' isn't available" to "unknown
> option `no-opt'".
>
> [jk: added test]
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

Andreas.

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