From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081120150832.GI10491@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081120145511.GD29789@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> [2008.11.20.1527 +0100]:
> > Why is this so complicated? Can't you just do_help from
> > should_do_help()?
>
> Yes, I could, but that would be in conflict with my understanding of
> the Law of Demeter.
What is that?
> > The overall semantics seems strange anyway, though - it seems that
> > 'tg mail --help -r' will try to show help for '-r' instead of
> > 'mail'.
>
> True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to
> a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line?
No. :-)
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 11:46 [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo martin f. krafft
2008-11-20 14:27 ` Petr Baudis
2008-11-20 14:55 ` martin f krafft
2008-11-20 15:08 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-11-20 15:11 ` martin f krafft
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