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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: Convert 'git blame' to parse_options()
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:13:10 +0100 (BST)
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > 
> > You seem to have a bunch of _other_ problems with parse_options. And 
> > that is fine, but they have nothing whatsoever to do with anything 
> > I've said. So don't "sky wizard" _me_ about those problems. ;P
> 
> I have a _single_ problem I have with parse_options(), namely that it was 
> painful to convert in pieces.

Okay.

I never wanted anything else than having a way to convert the rest of the 
Git programs to parse options.

Of course, my approach was not meant incremental, yours was.

But I never wanted anything as complicated as to merit a 7-mail patch 
series that I have no time to even look at.

> Do you see now?

I do see now.

Sorry,
Dscho