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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how optparse can go horribly wrong
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:44:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0909260644w781d3c3h4fca22e3b7d97768@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926015127.GA12994@vidovic>

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 03:51, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> wrote:
> Doing this only to -m flag would break consistency. That said, I don't
> have any opinion in disallowing the sticked form for _all_ short
> options.

Perhaps instead disallow it for short options that do not take a
one-symbol argument, that is -n4 makes a lot of sense to me, but -m"my
commit message here" not so much.


-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-26 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-25 23:32 how optparse can go horribly wrong Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-26  1:51 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-09-26 13:44   ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-09-26 19:25     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-28 13:37       ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-01 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] do not mangle short options which take arguments Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-01 20:23   ` [PATCH 2/2] allow mangling short options which take integer arguments Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-01 21:55     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-02  7:43       ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-02  7:50         ` Jeff King
2009-10-02  8:26           ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-02  8:41             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-03  9:23           ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-01 21:53   ` [PATCH 1/2] do not mangle short options which take arguments Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-02  6:11   ` Jeff King
2009-10-02  7:36     ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-02  7:46       ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-10-02  7:57       ` Jeff King
2009-10-02  8:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-02  8:43         ` Jeff King
2009-10-02  9:04           ` Johannes Schindelin

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