Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:20:56 -0700 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Allow '--inherit' as the negation of '--no-inherit' |
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On 11/19/13, 1:12 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote: > On 18/11/13 23:15, David Ahern wrote: >> Why not cleanup the options for the commands and move all of the no-xxxx to >> just xxxx? Anyone using no-xxxx would still just work by the existing code. > > Interesting idea but the short and long options are a combination, and short > options don't work the same way e.g. -i and --no-inherit go together. >
If inherit is on by default and -i / --inherit is the option then -i is a no-op and --no-inherit disables it. That's the same effect has having inherit on by default and an option to disable it called --no-inherit.
David
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