[PATCH] D123068: Add the /nologo flag to llvm-ml

[Alan Zhao via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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Comment at: llvm/tools/llvm-ml/Opts.td:70
+              HelpText<"No effect as this tool never writes copyright data. "
+                       "Included for parity">;
 def output_file : MLJoinedOrSeparate<"Fo">, HelpText<"Names the output file">;
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hans wrote:
> ayzhao wrote:
> > hans wrote:
> > > For clang-cl we don't include ignored options in the /help output at all. See the cl_ignored_group in clang/include/clang/Driver/Options.td and how "nologo" is handled there. Maybe llvm-ml should handle ignored options similarly?
> > I don't think there's a consistent approach here - both llvm-cvtres and llvm-mt have help text for this flag (and in fact, I copied this help text from llvm-mt).
> It's a nitpick obviously, but I don't think the current help message is good:
> 
> - It doesn't explain what the flag does: it assumes that the reader already knows what it's supposed to do (print the "copyright data"), and then explains that it won't do that
> - "Included for parity" is redundant, since *all* flags are included for parity with the original tool.
> 
> A better help text would be something like "Don't print startup banner (default)" or something like that.  But just having no help text would be just as good.
> 
> I didn't realize llvm-cvtres and llvm-mt have the same issue, but I didn't review that code :-)
Ended up removing the HelpText.


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