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From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: normalperson@yhbt.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:08:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509120809.4d9494b9.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11471512103526-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

>  * unbundling of short options: -uC20n20z => -u -C20 -n20 -z

Does anyone ever use this?  I think this makes sense only for flags that
don't have parameters but that would create an ugly special case. Is it
too hard to type "-u -C=20 -n=20 -z"?

>  * optional argument handling (-C<num>, -M<num>)
>    -C <num> (with a space between them) has not changed,
>    however, <num> can be a sha1, or a path

IMO optional arguments are usually bad idea.

    -C 2 (is "2" argument?)
    -C2  (-C=2 or -C -2?)

Better to make it obvious there's an argument

    -C=2

or not support optional arguments at all and "-C 2" becomes unambiguous.

-- 
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09  5:06 [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06 ` [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06   ` [PATCH 2/6] update-index: convert to using gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06     ` [PATCH 3/6] ls-tree: convert to gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06       ` [PATCH 4/6] ls-files: convert to using gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06         ` [PATCH 5/6] gitopt: convert setup_revisions(), and diff_opt_parse() Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06           ` [PATCH 6/6] commit: allow --pretty= args to be abbreviated Eric Wong
2006-05-09  7:16           ` [PATCH 5/6] gitopt: convert setup_revisions(), and diff_opt_parse() Eric Wong
2006-05-11 20:19           ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09  9:08   ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
2006-05-09 12:58     ` [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 19:39       ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 19:18     ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 20:10       ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 20:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:08           ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 21:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:31               ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09  8:35 ` [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 19:48   ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 20:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:14       ` Eric Wong

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