From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <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 23:10:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509231031.b62576da.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509191803.GA3676@localdomain>
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> I'm striving for backwards compatibility with existing usage. That
> means as a diff option, -C alone works, as does -C20. I've made -C 20
> _not_ work because it breaks existing usage (where 20 could be a
> filename, or a tree-ish). -C=20 would mean something
> else,
I think optional arguments are still confusing. We could support both
-C (no args) and -C=20 syntax.
> since I wanted to make pickaxe work exactly as it did before:
> -S=var would search for '=var', not 'var'.
Some other options use -x=y syntax so this would be confusing. Pickaxe's
-Stext syntax is a bit strange. I think -S text or -S=text would be
more logical.
--
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 20:09 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 ` [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 12:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 19:39 ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 19:18 ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 20:10 ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
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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