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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail•com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@statsbiblioteket•dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-'
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:12:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbnlct6ng.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8103CEFD-4160-4C03-B58B-A3CCCA52748B@gmail.com> (Kyle J. McKay's message of "Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:11:02 -0800")

"Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail•com> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2015, at 17:33, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail•com> writes:
>>
>>>> use 5.008;
>>>
>>> So either that needs to change or the code should properly deal with
>>> the version of Getopt::Long that comes with 5.8.0.
>>>
>>> Since it's really not very difficult or invasive to add support for
>>> the no- variants, here's a patch to do so:
>>
>> Doesn't that approach add "what does --no-no-chain-rely-to even
>> mean?" confusion to the resulting system?  If that is not the case,
>> then I am all for it, but otherwise, let's not.
>
> No.  You have to append the '!' to get the automagic no prefix
> alternative(s), so while 'chain-reply-to!' means support chain-reply- 
> to, nochain-reply-to and (if you have a new enough Getopt::Long) no- 
> chain-reply-to, just using 'no-chain-reply-to' without the trailing
> !' means that nono-chain-reply-to and no-no-chain-reply-to remain
> invalid options that will generate an error.

Ahh, I missed that ! suffix (or lack thereof).

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 23:35 [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.3.0-rc2 Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 12:58 ` Broken makefile check for curl version on el4 [Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.3.0-rc2] Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-30  9:52   ` [PATCH] Makefile: Handle broken curl version number in version check Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-30 14:50     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-30 15:34       ` Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-30 15:41       ` Kyle J. McKay
2015-01-30 22:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 13:11 ` All gnupg tests broken on el4 [Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.3.0-rc2] Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-29 15:43   ` Jeff King
2015-01-29 15:51     ` Jeff King
2015-01-29 17:34     ` Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-29 18:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-29 13:30 ` Testsuite regression with perl 5.8.0 " Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-29 15:52   ` Jeff King
2015-01-30  9:53     ` Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-30  6:24   ` [PATCH] t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' Tom G. Christensen
2015-01-30 23:05     ` brian m. carlson
2015-01-31  2:40       ` Kyle J. McKay
2015-02-02  1:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-02 16:11           ` Kyle J. McKay
2015-02-02 20:12             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-12 23:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-13 20:19           ` [PATCH 0/2] Getopt::Long workaround in send-email Junio C Hamano
2015-02-13 20:19             ` [PATCH 1/2] git-send-email.perl: support no- prefix with older GetOptions Junio C Hamano
2015-02-15  6:32               ` Brandon Casey
     [not found]                 ` <031750B1-259D-4F19-8484-98A7A1266248@gmail.com>
2015-02-16  1:35                   ` Brandon Casey
2015-02-13 20:19             ` [PATCH 2/2] SQUASH??? t9001: turn --no$option workarounds to --no-$option Junio C Hamano
2015-02-13 20:30             ` [PATCH 0/2] Getopt::Long workaround in send-email Kyle J. McKay
2015-02-13 22:21             ` brian m. carlson
2015-02-15  6:13             ` Brandon Casey
2015-02-16  9:58             ` Tom G. Christensen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-24 23:18 [PATCH] t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' Brandon Casey
2008-10-11  0:21 Brandon Casey
2008-10-11  0:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-11  0:44   ` Brandon Casey

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