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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 01:35:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzmhr7fys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147151209168-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> (Eric Wong's message of "Mon, 08 May 2006 22:06:43 -0700")

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Here's my take at a new command-line option parser to reduce wear on my
> fingers.  It handles both long and short options, permuting, automatic
> abbreviations, required arguments, optional arguments, and bundling.

Taken a superficial look at it.

Sounds nice, might be a tad too ambitious though.  Looks
intrusive at places.

And scary, especially the "eat" macros are very scary.

I have to think about it a bit.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09  5:06 [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06 ` [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06   ` [PATCH 2/6] update-index: convert to using gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06     ` [PATCH 3/6] ls-tree: convert to gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06       ` [PATCH 4/6] ls-files: convert to using gitopt Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06         ` [PATCH 5/6] gitopt: convert setup_revisions(), and diff_opt_parse() Eric Wong
2006-05-09  5:06           ` [PATCH 6/6] commit: allow --pretty= args to be abbreviated Eric Wong
2006-05-09  7:16           ` [PATCH 5/6] gitopt: convert setup_revisions(), and diff_opt_parse() Eric Wong
2006-05-11 20:19           ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09  9:08   ` [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 12:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 19:39       ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 19:18     ` Eric Wong
2006-05-09 20:10       ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 20:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:08           ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09 21:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:31               ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-05-09  8:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-09 19:48   ` [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements Eric Wong
2006-05-09 20:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-09 21:14       ` Eric Wong

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