From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC] git-fsck-cache argument processing Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20050521051536.GA9387@havoc.gtf.org> References: <4870.10.10.10.24.1116646732.squirrel@linux1> <7voeb5np30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sean , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 21 07:15:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZMK6-00026a-Rc for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 07:14:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261664AbVEUFPw (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261659AbVEUFPw (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:52 -0400 Received: from atlmail.prod.rxgsys.com ([69.61.70.25]:10205 "EHLO bastet.signetmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261664AbVEUFPq (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bastet.signetmail.com (RXG Elite Mail Server) with ESMTP id A5568A884E; Fri, 20 May 2005 23:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bastet.signetmail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atlmail.prod.rxgsys.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17934-05; Fri, 20 May 2005 23:55:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from havoc.gtf.org (havoc.gtf.org [63.115.148.101]) by bastet.signetmail.com (RXG Elite Mail Server) with ESMTP id 567D4A8849; Fri, 20 May 2005 23:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from havoc.gtf.org (havoc.gtf.org [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by havoc.gtf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3141C1E94E; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from garzik@localhost) by havoc.gtf.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4L5FaPt009461; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:15:36 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7voeb5np30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by EMS at localhost.localdomain Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:08:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The patch looks good. Before you proceed to convert the rest, > could I ask you to first let us see the list of new set of > options and semantics changes, if any ("checkout-cache -f -a" vs > "checkout-cache -a -f" immediately comes to mind)? Typical implementation is agnostic on the ordering of options, but with a few lines of code in parse_opt() that need not always be the case. FWIW most users (including me!) would expect that order of options is -not- significant. Jeff