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| author | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2018-06-05 08:33:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2018-06-29 10:56:25 +0000 |
| commit | f3a8f9c34d95d862fb4d12869a7b31cea592561f (patch) | |
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Options: treat array option -Dopt= and -Dopt=[] as equivalent
Currently the former will be parsed as [''], while the latter is parsed
as [] in python. This makes for some obnoxious special handling
depending on what the user passes. This is even more obnoxious since for
string type arguments this doesn't require special handling.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/empty-array-opts.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/empty-array-opts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d3b05d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/empty-array-opts.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +## Array options treat -Dopt= and -Dopt=[] as equivalent + +Prior to this change passing -Dopt= to an array opt would be interpreted as +[''] (an array with an empty string), now -Dopt= is the same as -Dopt=[], an +empty list. |