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| author | Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com> | 2024-05-14 12:13:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me> | 2024-05-30 03:07:21 +0000 |
| commit | 031d92411637904a8ed759dc80bc474213dd4fa9 (patch) | |
| tree | b01c2401c71daeb868dbc8996dc34eb3482a4178 /doc | |
| parent | 218630a241d71ea5c136f72e1aaaf2299df6a0b1 (diff) | |
libutil/args: warn on unknown settings after parsing all flags
Upstream change: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10701
Change-Id: Icf271df57ec529dd8c64667d1ef9f6dbf02d33d3
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/change-authors.yml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/fix-silent-unknown-options.md | 30 |
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/change-authors.yml b/doc/manual/change-authors.yml index 98a135397..c56f588ca 100644 --- a/doc/manual/change-authors.yml +++ b/doc/manual/change-authors.yml @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ artemist: display_name: Artemis Tosini forgejo: artemist +cole-h: + display_name: Cole Helbling + github: cole-h + edolstra: display_name: Eelco Dolstra github: edolstra diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/fix-silent-unknown-options.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/fix-silent-unknown-options.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..679cc26e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/fix-silent-unknown-options.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +synopsis: Warn on unknown settings anywhere in the command line +prs: 10701 +credits: [cole-h] +category: Improvements +--- + +All `nix` commands will now properly warn when an unknown option is specified anywhere in the command line. + +Before: + +```console +$ nix-instantiate --option foobar baz --expr '{}' +warning: unknown setting 'foobar' +$ nix-instantiate '{}' --option foobar baz --expr +$ nix eval --expr '{}' --option foobar baz +{ } +``` + +After: + +```console +$ nix-instantiate --option foobar baz --expr '{}' +warning: unknown setting 'foobar' +$ nix-instantiate '{}' --option foobar baz --expr +warning: unknown setting 'foobar' +$ nix eval --expr '{}' --option foobar baz +warning: unknown setting 'foobar' +{ } +``` |