2011/7/21 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It should be. But I think that unveils one of the shortcomings of the >> (any) option parser: You wont get notified when an option was given, >> regardless of its value. To handle the above I would have to use >> OPTION_CALLBACK to set an addition flag exc_given (like it is done in >> git-ls-files) and test against this. > > Prepare a three-value variable, initialized to -1, set it to 0 on --no-foo > and set it to 1 on --foo. Use the default if the variable is still -1. > Thats the 'invent an invalid value'-case I described. Which does not necessarily exist. Having the proposed 'given' flag available I would need only one variable for all the options (these coming from ls-files) to check if any of them where given, and could decide if the given options would make sense. Bert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html