From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:02:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserve a slot for argv[0] in default_arg.
Message-ID: <1254686541.507.9.camel@swboyd-laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20091004182746.GA22995@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 14:27 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Ah, thanks, for some reason I wasn't able to produce it before, but I
> can easily replicate it here. I think it's a regression from converting
> show-branch to use parse_options, which happened in May, but I didn't
> actually bisect it. I'm not sure showbranch.default has worked at all
> since then (which I guess goes to show how many people are actually
> using it).

Correct. Junio sent a patch to fix this problem in June[1]. I guess he
must have dropped his own patch, or he wasn't satisfied with how parse
options clobbers things.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/121142