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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: fix handling of optional arguments
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:04:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525E3A80.5000500@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131015235739.GI9464@google.com>

Am 10/16/2013 1:57, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> You just made these two that the user clearly meant to express two
>> different things indistinguishable.
>>
>> 	opt.sh -S
>>       opt.sh -S ''
> [...]
>> And that is exactly why gitcli.txt tells users to use the 'sticked'
>> form, and ends the bullet point with:
>>
>>    An option that takes optional option-argument must be written in
>>    the 'sticked' form.
> 
> Yes, another possibility in that vein would be to teach rev-parse
> --parseopt an OPTIONS_LONG_STICKED output format, and then parse with

Aren't you people trying to solve something that can't besolved? What does

  git commit -S LICENSE

mean? Commit the index and sign with the key-id "LICENSE" or commit just
the file "LICENSE" with the default key-id?

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-16  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 12:00 [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: fix handling of optional arguments Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-15 22:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-15 23:47   ` Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-15 23:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-15 23:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-15 23:57     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-16  7:04       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-10-16  8:53         ` Jeff King
2013-10-16 21:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-16 21:50             ` Jeff King
2013-10-16 10:58         ` Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-16 14:14       ` Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-16 22:33         ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-25 20:18           ` [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-25 22:01             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25 22:52               ` Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-25 22:55                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-26 21:55                   ` Philip Oakley
2013-10-28 15:47                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 11:08               ` sticked -> stuck Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-31 11:08                 ` [PATCH 1/2] Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked' Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-31 19:35                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 11:08                 ` [PATCH 2/2] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode Nicolas Vigier
2013-10-27  5:45             ` [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode Michael Haggerty
2013-10-15 23:53   ` [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: fix handling of optional arguments Nicolas Vigier

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