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Re: [PATCH] grep: correct help string for --exclude-standard

From: Duy Nguyen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:03:58

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
Hmm. If the default is "--exclude-standard", then what expect people to
use is "--no-exclude-standard". Would it make more sense to list that in
the "-h" output?
I thought about it and actually edited git-grep man page to clarify
the default, only to find out this.  When --untracked is used,
--exclude-standard is the default. When --no-index is used,
--no-exclude-standard is the default. Can't have it both ways. This is
already mentioned with the subtle phrase "only useful with...".
It might be nice if parseopt had a PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP option or something
to show the "--no-" form.
Regardless, yes it would be nice to have something like this. I think
there are places that can make use of this.
-- 
Duy
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