Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:12:44 +0200 | From | Adrian Hunter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Allow '--inherit' as the negation of '--no-inherit' |
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On 18/11/13 23:15, David Ahern wrote: > On 11/18/13, 2:55 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote: >> Long options can be negated by prefixing them >> with 'no-'. However options that already start >> with 'no-', such as '--no-inherit' result in ugly >> double 'no's. Avoid that by accepting that the >> removal of 'no-' also negates the long option. >> > > 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.
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