On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Dave Borowitz <dborow...@google.com> writes:
>
> > The issue is that if both _ALWAYS and _IF_POSSIBLE are set,
> > git_transport_push interprets it as _ALWAYS. But, we are also supposed
> > to prefer explicit command-line options to config values.
> >
> > Suppose we parsed config first, then options. If the user has
> > push.signed = always and and passes --signed-if-possible, then the end
> > result is (_ALWAYS | _IF_POSSIBLE), aka always,...
>
> Doesn't that merely suggest that the option parsing is implemented
> incorrectly?  Why is --signed-if-possible just ORing its bits into
> the flag, instead of clearing and setting?

Yes, that would be incorrect, but the actual implementation in my
patch is not incorrect, it just solves the problem a different way.

The alternative I suggested is another correct implementation, and it
sounds like it's more in line with the convention you expect. I'll go
with that.
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