[MERGE] Add --no-pending to status to not show the pending merges. (#202830)

[James Westby]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:39 +0000, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Actually if you do:
> 
> def run(pending=True):
> 
> It at least *used* to have the option on as default. That may have
> changed with the optparse changes. I don't know if it always sets all
> "takes_options" or if it continues the habit of only passing an entry in
> **kwargs that was actually set by the user.

I've been wondering this for a while, but never bothered to test it out.

What I would like it for is so that the user can override a value from
a config file in builddeb to be the default of the command line option.

Specifically, with a boolean flag --foo, default false, and a config
option foo, if the user has

  foo = True

then if I have

  run(foo=False)

then they can't override it, as I have to do

  if not foo:
    get_from_config(foo)

but if I can do

  run(foo=None)

I can have 

  if foo is None:

instead, and they can do --no-foo to override the config temporarily.

I'll experiment tomorrow, but I would definitely like this feature,
for reasons over and above the aesthetic reasons John gave.

> 
> The big thing is that I find dealing in negatives to be ugly, and the
> fact that the first thing he does is:
> 
>  pending=not no_pending
> 
> Signifies some agreement.

I agree that it is ugly, and so I will look for an easy way to change
it.

Thanks,

James