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author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-04-17 11:11:33 (GMT) |
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committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-04-17 12:09:06 (GMT) |
commit | ad937fb36c6b20d210b2713f622591f3d46dce82 (patch) | |
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Help: Document that set_property APPEND ignores empty values
Fixes: #20581
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diff --git a/Help/command/set_property.rst b/Help/command/set_property.rst index ec08c8f..1728c98 100644 --- a/Help/command/set_property.rst +++ b/Help/command/set_property.rst @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ the property to set. Remaining arguments are used to compose the property value in the form of a semicolon-separated list. If the ``APPEND`` option is given the list is appended to any existing -property value. If the ``APPEND_STRING`` option is given the string is +property value (except that empty values are ignored and not appended). +If the ``APPEND_STRING`` option is given the string is appended to any existing property value as string, i.e. it results in a longer string and not a list of strings. When using ``APPEND`` or ``APPEND_STRING`` with a property defined to support ``INHERITED`` |