René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > Overall I get the impression that having the negative form enabled by > default was not a good idea. For boolean options it makes sense, for > options with arguments perhaps as well, but for OPT_SET_INT we would > have less confusion if the negated form was opt-in. > > To make it easier discoverable we could let the short help include > the optional "no-" part, which would look like this: > > usage: git ls-tree [<options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] > > -d only show trees > -r recurse into subtrees > -t show trees when recursing > -z terminate entries with NUL byte > -l, --long include object size > --name-only list only filenames > --name-status list only filenames > --object-only list only objects > --[no-]full-name use full path names > --[no-]full-tree list entire tree; not just current directory (implies --full-name) > --format <format> format to use for the output > --[no-]abbrev[=<n>] use <n> digits to display object names > > Thoughts? I like the "optional no- accepted" markings, but I suspect there may be quite a lot of fallouts.
