Re: [PATCH] Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN

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Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As of b04ba2bb4 OPTION_BOOLEAN was deprecated.

The primary purpose of b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate
OPT_BOOLEAN, 2011-09-27) is to deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN(), which was
hard to use correctly.

OPT_BOOLEAN() is not touched at all with this patch, it seems.  Do
they want count-up semantics?

> This commit removes all occurrences of OPTION_BOOLEAN.
> In b04ba2bb4 Junio suggested to replace it with either
> OPTION_SET_INT or OPTION_COUNTUP instead. However a pattern, which
> occurred often with the OPTION_BOOLEAN was a hidden boolean parameter.
> So I defined OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL as an additional possible parse option
> in parse-options.h to make life easy.
>
> The OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL was used in checkout, clone, commit, show-ref.
> The only exception, where there was need to fiddle with OPTION_SET_INT
> was log and notes. However in these two files there is also a pattern,
> so we could think of introducing OPT_NONEG_BOOL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At first glance, it looked to me that OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL was a good
addition, given how often we have PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN.  While I think
some of the hidden ones are justified, I am not sure if the hiding
of many options are.  If we stop hiding many of them, HIDDEN_BOOL
may become not so useful.  I dunno.

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