On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The goal comes from his GSoC microproject. Specifically, Pranit wants > an "unspecified" value. The reason is that he is adding a > commit.verbose=<level> config variable to back the existing git-commit > --verbose option. Any use of --verbose (one or more times) or > --no-verbose should override the config.verbose value altogether, so > he wants a way to know if --verbose or --no-verbose was used; hence > the "unspecified" value. And, really, this issue isn't necessarily > specific to git-commit. It could apply to any command that understands > verbosity levels and wants to be able to get them from both a config > variable and a command-line option. > > A much easier solution would be to update OPT_VERBOSE() to understand > that negative values are "unspecified", and then --verbose would > (pseudocode): > > if (value < 0) > value = 0 > value++; > > and --no-verbose would: > > value = 0 > > That should be compatible with existing clients of OPT__VERBOSE() > which initialize the value to 0, and should satisfy Pranit's case; he > can initialize it to -1, and if it is still -1 when option parsing is > done, then he knows that neither --verbose nor --no-verbose was seen. This is a much easier solution. I didn't think of this. This type of problem can only arise with only verbose, so it would be better to specifically change that part of code. -- 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