From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: "Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@debian.org>,
"Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@redhat.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:30:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005143014.GA18176@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071005142507.GL19879@artemis.corp>
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:25:07PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> The option parser takes argc, argv, an array of struct option
> and a usage string. Each of the struct option elements in the array
> describes a valid option, its type and a pointer to the location where the
> value is written. The entry point is parse_options(), which scans through
> the given argv, and matches each option there against the list of valid
> options. During the scan, argv is rewritten to only contain the
> non-option command line arguments and the number of these is returned.
>
> Aggregation of single switches is allowed:
> -rC0 is the same as -r -C 0 (supposing that -C wants an arg).
I like options aggregation, but I'm not sure aggregating option arguments
is a good idea... I can't even think of an application that does it.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 21:45 [PATCH] Add a simple option parser Kristian Høgsberg
2007-10-03 21:45 ` [PATCH] Port builtin-add.c to use the new " Kristian Høgsberg
2007-10-03 23:11 ` [PATCH] Add a simple " Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-04 14:57 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-10-04 15:15 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-04 16:31 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-04 16:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-05 10:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 14:21 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 14:25 ` [ALTERNATE PATCH] " Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 14:30 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-10-05 14:45 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 15:45 ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-10-05 15:56 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 16:10 ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-10-05 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-05 16:38 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-06 8:46 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-10-05 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-05 16:41 ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-10-05 16:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-05 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-05 14:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-05 15:33 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-10-05 15:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-07 17:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
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