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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sloppy Getopt::Long.
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:24:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63gew3dp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090506161309.GC10702@curie-int> (Robin H. Johnson's message of "Wed\, 6 May 2009 09\:13\:09 -0700")

"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:49:49PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:
>> > 
>> > > Getopt-Long v2.38 is much stricter about sloppy getopt usage. The
>> > > trailing pipe causes git-svn testcases to fail for all of the --stdin
>> > > argument calls.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
>> > 
>> > Eric, I'll take this directly to my tree.  Ok?
>> 
>> The empty "" after the "|" was intended for the set-tree command to take
>> a lone "-" as a parameter to also mean "--stdin".
>> 
>> The following should work, too, but I don't have time to test right now:
>> 
>> +			{ '' => \$_stdin, 'stdin' => \$_stdin,
>> +			  %cmt_opts, %fc_opts, } ],
> I confirm that it does correctly set the $_stdin variable (tested
> briefly).

Wait a minute.  Do you mean we would also need the above "explicit empty
argument sets $_stdin"?  Wasn't it your earlier analysis/claim that the
caller already takes care of a lone "-"?

Or do you mean "yes it would also work but it is not necessary"?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-06 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05 18:16 [PATCH] Fix sloppy Getopt::Long Robin H. Johnson
2009-05-05 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-05 20:21   ` Robin H. Johnson
     [not found] ` <7vljpazuyg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
     [not found]   ` <20090506064949.GB29479@dcvr.yhbt.net>
2009-05-06 16:13     ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-05-06 17:24       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-05-08 18:28         ` Robin H. Johnson

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