From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:30:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH][GSoC] parse-options: Add OPT_SET_INT_NONEG.
Message-ID: <xmqqr467mfrg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dq5QyZdzCtew0qF37qThH8+05iTrD-ZOeBgbEukmCY5Q@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> By convention, no full stop in the subject line. The subject should
> summarize your changes and "add ..NONEG" is just one part of it. The
> other is "convert to use ...NONEG". So I suggest "parse-options:
> convert to use new macro OPT_SET_INT_NONEG()" or something like that.
>
> You should also explain in the message body (before Signed-off-by:)
> why this is a good thing to do. My guess is better readability and
> harder to make mistakes in the future when you have to declare new
> options with noneg.

As I said elsewhere, I am not sure if doubling the number of
OPT_<type> macros as your micro suggestion proposes is the right
solution to the problem.

What are we trying to solve?