From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction.
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:21:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w9la7o8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071217105834.GG7453@artemis.madism.org> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:58:34 +0100")
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:53:00AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> This is just a quick idea before I go back to sleep, but your earlier
>> comment on "--no-<an-option-that-is-not-even-boolean>" made me realize
>> that the alternative I was suggesting earlier would actually work much
>> nicer, if you introduce "--<an-option-that-take-optional-arg>-default"
>> magic.
>
> meeeow I love the idea !
There is a bit more serious issue than coding, actually.
Short options.
A script wants to use default rename detection threshold for unknown
commit $foo whose name might look like a number. IOW, this
git diff -M $foo
could be ambiguous. Obviously, "git diff -M-default $foo" would not fly
very well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-17 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 5:52 [RFH] convert shortlog to use parse_options Jeff King
2007-12-13 9:06 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 9:10 ` Jeff King
2007-12-13 9:35 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 10:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] parseopt: Enforce the use of the sticked form for optional arguments Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] parseopt: Add a gitcli(5) man page Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 11:04 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-13 13:56 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 7:28 ` [PATCH] (squashme) gitcli documentation fixups Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 8:51 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 8:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 7:28 ` [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 9:07 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 10:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 10:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 11:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-17 12:33 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 20:31 ` Jeff King
2007-12-17 20:42 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 21:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 23:07 ` Jeff King
2007-12-17 23:14 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 20:53 ` Jeff King
2007-12-17 21:24 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 21:11 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 11:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 11:56 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 11:59 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 17:40 ` [RFH] convert shortlog to use parse_options Junio C Hamano
2007-12-13 18:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 18:07 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-13 18:28 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-12-13 18:47 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-12-13 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 4:08 ` Jeff King
2007-12-14 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 8:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-14 8:39 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-14 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-15 11:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 7:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 7:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-17 7:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 9:38 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-17 16:21 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-12-13 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-13 20:53 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-13 9:29 ` Pierre Habouzit
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