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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: document automatic PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:41:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <220119.867davokff.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba624c59-5330-360e-dc4a-432752d22fc1@web.de>


On Wed, Jan 19 2022, René Scharfe wrote:

> The help strings for arguments are enclosed in angle brackets
> automatically.  E.g. if argh is specified as "name", "--option <name>"
> is printed, to indicate that users need to supply an actual name.  The
> flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP turns this off, so that "--option name"
> is printed instead, to indicate that the literal string needs to be
> supplied -- a rare case.
>
> This flag is enabled automatically if argh contains special characters
> like brackets.  The developer is supposed to provide any required angle
> brackets for more complicated cases.  E.g. if argh is "<start>,<end>"
> then "--option <start>,<end>" is printed.
>
> Add a comment to mention this PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP behavior.
>
> Also remove the flag from option definitions for which it's inferred
> automatically.
>
> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
> Somehow I feel this is not enough, but I can't pin down what's
> missing.

Rather than just remove the flag from {am,push}.c and document this it
would be better to add it to the optbug() checks in
parse_options_check().

That way we'll ensure that these flags won't be redunantly specified, if
we care enough...

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-19 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-08 20:15 [RFC PATCH] branch: add "inherit" option for branch.autoSetupMerge Josh Steadmon
2021-09-08 20:44 ` Josh Steadmon
2021-09-11  0:25 ` [PATCH v2] " Josh Steadmon
2021-09-11  0:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-17  4:35     ` Josh Steadmon
2021-10-17  5:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-15 21:57         ` Josh Steadmon
2021-10-17  4:45 ` [PATCH v3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-10-18 18:31   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-18 21:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-18 22:11       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-15 22:22     ` Josh Steadmon
2021-10-18 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH] branch: add "inherit" option for branch.autoSetupMerge Glen Choo
2021-10-18 18:08   ` Glen Choo
2021-11-15 21:44   ` Josh Steadmon
2021-11-16 18:25 ` [PATCH v4] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-11-17  0:33   ` Glen Choo
2021-11-18 22:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-30 22:05     ` Josh Steadmon
2021-11-19  6:47   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-30 21:34     ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-01  9:11       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-07  7:12 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] branch: inherit tracking configs Josh Steadmon
2021-12-07  7:12   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-07  8:57     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-09 23:03       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-10  1:00         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-07 19:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-14 20:35       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-08  0:16     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-08  0:17     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-09 22:45       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-09 23:47         ` Glen Choo
2021-12-10  1:03           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-10 17:32             ` Glen Choo
2021-12-11  2:18               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-08 23:53     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-09  0:08       ` Glen Choo
2021-12-09 22:49         ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-09 23:43           ` Glen Choo
2021-12-07  7:12   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-07  9:08     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-12-08  0:35       ` Glen Choo
2021-12-14 22:15         ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-14 22:27       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-07 19:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-14 20:37       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-08  1:02     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-14 22:10       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-07 18:52   ` [PATCH v5 0/2] branch: inherit tracking configs Junio C Hamano
2021-12-08 17:06     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-10 22:48     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-12-14 22:11       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] " Josh Steadmon
2021-12-14 23:44   ` [PATCH v6 1/3] branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-15 21:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-16 19:57     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-17  5:10       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-20 18:29         ` Glen Choo
2021-12-21  3:27           ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-14 23:44   ` [PATCH v6 2/3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-16 21:27     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-17  5:11       ` Josh Steadmon
2021-12-14 23:44   ` [PATCH v6 3/3] config: require lowercase for branch.autosetupmerge Josh Steadmon
2021-12-15  0:43   ` [PATCH v6 0/3] branch: inherit tracking configs Josh Steadmon
2021-12-16  0:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-16  0:37     ` Glen Choo
2021-12-16  1:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-17  5:12 ` [PATCH v7 " Josh Steadmon
2021-12-17  5:12   ` [PATCH v7 1/3] branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-17  5:12   ` [PATCH v7 2/3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-17  5:12   ` [PATCH v7 3/3] config: require lowercase for branch.*.autosetupmerge Josh Steadmon
2021-12-20 21:05   ` [PATCH v7 0/3] branch: inherit tracking configs Glen Choo
2021-12-21  3:30 ` [PATCH v8 " Josh Steadmon
2021-12-21  3:30   ` [PATCH v8 1/3] branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-21  6:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-21 18:25       ` Glen Choo
2021-12-21  3:30   ` [PATCH v8 2/3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking Josh Steadmon
2021-12-21 18:17     ` Glen Choo
2022-01-11  1:57     ` incorrect 'git (checkout|branch) -h' output with new --track modes (was: [PATCH v8 2/3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-18 20:49       ` [PATCH] branch,checkout: fix --track usage strings Josh Steadmon
2022-01-18 22:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-19 10:56           ` [PATCH] parse-options: document automatic PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP René Scharfe
2022-01-19 14:41             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
     [not found]             ` <CA++g3E-azP3wFTtNkbFdmT7VW3hvULL0WkkAdwfrMb6HDtcXdg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-19 15:30               ` René Scharfe
2022-01-19 18:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-20 10:30               ` René Scharfe
2022-01-20 18:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-21  9:42                   ` René Scharfe
2022-01-21 20:59                     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-20 12:05         ` [PATCH] branch,checkout: fix --track usage strings Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-20 12:18           ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-20 14:00             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-20 18:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-21 11:27             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-21 21:12               ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-19 10:20       ` incorrect 'git (checkout|branch) -h' output with new --track modes (was: [PATCH v8 2/3] branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking) René Scharfe
2022-01-20 12:00         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-20 12:35           ` [PATCH] branch,checkout: fix --track documentation René Scharfe
2022-01-20 13:57             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-20 19:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-21  3:30   ` [PATCH v8 3/3] config: require lowercase for branch.*.autosetupmerge Josh Steadmon
2021-12-21 18:13   ` [PATCH v8 0/3] branch: inherit tracking configs Glen Choo

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