[RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow detached forms (--option arg) for git log options.

Hi,

This has been bothering me for a while: many commands accept detached form (like "git commit -m message" instead of "git commit -mmessage"), but others don't, in particular, git log options like

git log -S<string> git log --grep=<string>

do not accept spaces.

This small patch serie is a very early RFC: it implements the feature for just two options. There are at least 4 ways towards a real implementations:

1) nobody except me likes the feature, drop the RFC.

2) Implement the same for other options. That's very repetitive (for
   each option, there are two ifs: a prefixcmp and a strcmp), I don't
   like it much.

3) Write a function or macro that accepts both variants, and use it
   everywhere.

4) use parse-option for "git log" options and then get the feature for
   free.

Hence my question: is there any reason why "git log" hasn't been migrated to parse-option? Or is it only that nobody did it yet?

What do you think?

Thanks,

Matthieu Moy (2):
  Allow "git log --grep foo" as synonym for "git log --grep=foo".
  Allow "git log -S string" as synonym for "git log -Sstring".

 diff.c     |    5 +++++
 revision.c |    4 ++++
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