Re: [PATCH v12 2/5] test-parse-options: print quiet as integer

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Pranit Bauva [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Current implementation of parse-options.c treats OPT__QUIET() as integer
and not boolean and thus it is more appropriate to print it as integer
to avoid confusion.

I can buy this line of reasoning, however, it would be even easier to
sell the change if you cited an existing client (a git command) which
actually respects multiple quiet levels. Are there any?

This is the only one I found in Documentation/

    -q::
    --quiet::
            Make 'git svn' less verbose. Specify a second time to make it
            even less verbose.

It probably is not a good idea to use OPT__QUIET() and try to do
multiple classes of quietness in the longer term anyway.

New work should be done to improve OPT_VERBOSITY() that already can
do "even more verbose" and "even more quiet" with a single variable;
currently there is no way to ask "has any verbosity ever been given
from the command line?", and we may want to support that.