Re: [RFC] Re: Convert 'git blame' to parse_options()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> There is already a discussion underway about the proper solution.

No there isn't, not any I have seen.

The recursion discussion has been going on for ages. Nothing happened, 
because people claimed it was too complex. And it doesn't solve all the 
_other_ issues where the current behaviour is just painful.

That said, I don't care how this gets fixed. If you want to fix it some 
other way, fine. Just _do_ it, dammit. And make the interface easier to 
use for incremental changes of existing code.

Because no, I don't care about builtin-blame.c in particular either. But I 
*do* care about the fact that currently it's sometimes a total *bitch* to 
convert the trivial ad-hoc argument parsing to use parse_options(). It 
takes effort and thinking.

And I seriously doubt that recursive or anything else will help that. But 
I _guarantee_ that an incremental mode will make it much much easier to do 
partial conversions of all the easy cases. And _that_ is what I care 
about.

		Linus