From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a simple option parser.
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:02:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071014070219.GA1198@artemis.corp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071013221450.GC2875@steel.home>
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:14:50PM +0000, Alex Riesen wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit, Sat, Oct 13, 2007 22:54:04 +0200:
> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 07:16:55PM +0000, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > > Pierre Habouzit, Sat, Oct 13, 2007 15:29:03 +0200:
> > > BTW, if you just printed the usage message out (it is about usage of a
> > > program, isn't it?) and called exit() everyone would be just as happy.
> > > And you wouldn't have to include strbuf (it is the only use of it),
> > > less code, too. It'd make simplier to stea^Wcopy your implementation,
> > > which I like :)
> >
> > the reason is that usage() is a wrapper around a callback, and I
> > suppose it's used by some GUI's or anything like that.
>
> It is not. Not yet. What could they use a usage text for?
> Besides, you could just export the callback (call_usage_callback or
> something) from usage.c and call it.
Okay makes sense.
> > FWIW you can rework the .c like this:
>
> on top of yours:
Added (reworked a bit for the current state of parse_options), and pushed.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 13:29 [RFC] CLI option parsing and usage generation for porcelains Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-13 14:53 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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2007-10-13 14:39 ` [PATCH] Add a simple option parser Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-13 14:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
[not found] ` <1192282153-26684-3-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>
2007-10-13 14:47 ` [PATCH] Port builtin-add.c to use the new " Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-13 15:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-13 19:22 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-13 20:27 ` Pierre Habouzit
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2007-10-14 14:01 ` [PATCH] Simplify usage string printing Jonas Fonseca
2007-10-14 16:26 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-13 19:16 ` [PATCH] Add a simple option parser Alex Riesen
2007-10-13 20:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-13 22:14 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-14 7:02 ` Pierre Habouzit [this message]
2007-10-14 14:10 ` [PATCH] Update manpages to reflect new short and long option aliases Jonas Fonseca
2007-10-14 16:26 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-14 9:18 ` [RFC] CLI option parsing and usage generation for porcelains Eric Wong
2007-10-14 9:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-14 16:54 ` [PATCH] parse-options: Allow abbreviated options when unambiguous Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 18:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 18:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-14 21:01 ` Eric Wong
2007-10-14 22:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 22:49 ` Eric Wong
2007-10-14 22:59 ` git-svn and submodules, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-15 7:07 ` git-svn and submodules Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-15 10:00 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-15 10:51 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-15 10:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15 10:53 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-15 16:27 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-15 14:45 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-15 15:14 ` .gitignore and svn:ignore [WAS: git-svn and submodules] Chris Shoemaker
2007-10-16 7:58 ` Eric Wong
2007-10-16 9:43 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-16 13:05 ` Chris Shoemaker
2007-10-15 15:53 ` git-svn and submodules Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 16:17 ` Performance issue with excludes (was: Re: git-svn and submodules) Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-15 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 16:51 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-15 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 17:38 ` Benoit SIGOURE
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-03 21:45 [PATCH] Add a simple option parser Kristian Høgsberg
2007-10-03 23:11 ` 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
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