From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value`
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:53:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Tk8fzRiqxWpd=r8=DRvEewNZXUZgD7MKyRLB1A=R-LxxGEZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
[Again sorry for double reporting. BTW, where should I search for
previous bugs? I've currently tried the mailing list archive.]
Trying to play with `notmuch` from a wrapper, I've stumbled upon the
following command line flags handling bug:
~~~~
notmuch show --format json --entire-thread true --body false --
'ciprian@volution.ro'
notmuch show --format json --entire-thread true --body=false --
'ciprian@volution.ro'
#=> yields nothing
notmuch show --format json --entire-thread=true --body false --
'ciprian@volution.ro'
#=> yields some emails
notmuch show --format json --entire-thread=true --body=false --
'ciprian@volution.ro'
#=> yields lots of emails
~~~~
I would expect that `--flag value` and `--flag=value` are equivalent,
at least for the options that the manual states `--flag=(true|false)`.
However based on the previous experiments it seems that using anything
except `--flag=value` yields inconsistent results.
Hope it helps,
Ciprian.
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-24 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-24 12:53 Ciprian Dorin Craciun [this message]
2020-04-27 17:53 ` Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value` David Bremner
2020-04-27 18:02 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2020-04-27 18:20 ` Tomi Ollila
2020-04-27 19:21 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2020-04-29 2:16 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2020-04-29 14:18 ` Tomi Ollila
2020-04-29 15:39 ` David Bremner
2020-04-29 15:45 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2020-04-29 16:28 ` David Bremner
2020-05-05 18:28 ` Carl Worth
2020-05-07 19:26 ` [PATCH] notmuch(1): clarify documentation about --option/value separators Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2020-05-07 23:40 ` Carl Worth
2020-05-08 12:01 ` David Bremner
2020-05-08 16:06 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2020-04-29 15:59 ` Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2020-04-29 16:07 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2020-04-29 15:33 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2020-04-30 16:59 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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