From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 14/14] tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options
Message-ID: <vpq8u83kb5d.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZQmGD2vo1B2K21-f_2RZRXduFt4VNKq2Pp9B_5bO=8=+w@mail.gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

> Not sure this is much of a problem with regards to "--[no-]merged"
> I mean isn't the square brackets self-explanatory?

Well, usually --no-foo means "cancel the effect of --foo", ie. "git
command --foo --no-foo" is equivalent to "git command".

Here, --no-merged=some-ref does not _cancel_ the effect but introduce a
new behavior that was not the default. So it may make sense to explain
this more clearly.

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Matthieu Moy
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