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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: Convert 'git blame' to parse_options()
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:49:17 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:25:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Could you handle the "recursive" use of parse_options() in builtin-blame.c 
> by teaching it about recursion? Yes. But again, it's just _simpler_ to 
> just teach parse_options() to parse the things it knows about, and leave 
> the other things in place.

If I know that I have option "-a", what is the correct partial parsing
of:

  git foo -b -a

?

-Peff