On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > I do not know if it is clear enough that 'option' in the last > sentence is a placeholder. I then wondered if spelling it as > `--no-<long>` would make it a bit clearer, but that is ugly. >
To be fair, this is exactly how the rest of the doc spells these things, so I would rather be consistent with the doc as is, and a future patch could clean this up. See OPT_SET_INT, for an example of `--no-option`. > The "Reset the list" is an instruction to the end-users who interact > with a program written by readers of this document using > OPT_STRING_LIST(), and it feels a bit out of place. Perhaps > > End users can reset the list by negating the option, > i.e. passing "--no-<long>", on the command line. > > I dunno. Maybe we can rephrase this "The list is reset via `--no-option`"? Thanks, Jake
