Re: [PATCH] Add the diff option --no-defaults

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:25:08AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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This feels very hack-ish to me, but perhaps this is a case of "perfect
is the enemy of the good".

I have a strong feeling that none of our diff/rev options can sanely take 
a parameter looking like "--defaults" or "--no-defaults".

But I do not have the time to audit the options.  Maybe you have?

Right now, I think we are safe. A few options like "--default" do take a
separated string argument, but saying "--default --no-defaults" seems a
little crazy to me (besides being confusing because they are talking
about two totally unrelated defaults).

Maybe you guys have already considered and discarded this as too hacky,
but isn't it the easiest to explain and code to declare --no-defaults is
acceptable only at the beginning?