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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5 v4] diff: parse detached options like -S foo
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:47:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802194724.GC2180@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v62ztnesc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

>> +	if (arg[2] != '\0') {
>> +		*optarg = arg + strlen("-c");
>
> Just a style thing, but I think "arg + 2" is much easier to read in this
> particular case, as it won't risk tempting readers to go "Huh?  What does
> that 'c' mean"?

Yeah, especially after the "if (arg[2] != ...)".  Thanks for a sanity
check.

> Do we have an option that can take a zero-length string as its value and
> do something meaningful?  I don't think of any offhand ("log -S'' -p" is
> not it---it may be meaningful but it is not useful), but this code would
> start giving "-p" instead of "" to the option in such a case.

 -l<num>:	"" is not a number.

 -S<artifact>:
		Could "" come up if a user tries to find a commit
		"Adding/removing string:" without typing a string to look
		for in gitk?  No, gitk protects against that.
		How about creating a view with an empty "Search string:"?
		No, that is protected against, too.

		Currently "git log -S" does not seem to do anything
		meaningful, anyway.

 -O<file>:	"" is not a file name.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-29  8:20 [PATCH 0/5 v3] log and diff: accept detached forms (--option value) Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] diff: parse detached options like -S foo Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] diff: split off a function for --stat-* option parsing Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] diff: parse detached options --stat-width n, --stat-name-width n Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] log: parse detached options like git log --grep foo Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 22:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-30  8:27     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30  8:31       ` [PATCH 1/5 v4] diff: parse detached options like -S foo Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 16:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 19:43           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 19:47           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-07-30  8:31       ` [PATCH 2/5 v4] diff: split off a function for --stat-* option parsing Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30  8:31       ` [PATCH 3/5 v4] diff: parse detached options --stat-width n, --stat-name-width n Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 16:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 18:47           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30  8:31       ` [PATCH 4/5 v4] log: parse detached options like git log --grep foo Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 17:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 18:55           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 21:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-03  6:33               ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-03 17:16                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-03 19:52                   ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-04  2:41                   ` Miles Bader
2010-07-30  8:31       ` [PATCH 5/5 v4] log: parse detached option for --glob Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] " Matthieu Moy

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