Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/1] jgit: create a tag command

["Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>]

2008/7/11 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Loving the make_jgit stuff.
>
> So making jgit a single stand-alone, portable shell script for
> command line usage was a good idea?  ;-)

It certainly seems so to me. It's a nice quick way of seeing what's
implemented (I was toying with adding a jgit help command which would
reflect over the TextBuiltins).

I'm not sure which if any platforms would eventually be better off
with a commandline jgit than trying to port c-git though.

> I think we are at the point where we need to either write a
> #@!*(!@(! command line option parser, import one, or stop writing
> command line programs.  I would certainly appreciate any opinion
> you might have on the matter.

a) is a distraction, c) is a backwards step, so maybe b) wins.

I don't know what the state of the art of Java option parsers is but
there is a port of GNU getopt [1] which might drop in quite easily.

Mike

PS apologies for the patch format, I'm stuck with Outlook or gmail,
and a recalcitrant firewall for the moment.

[1] http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/download.html