Re: Sanity check of git-commit patch, was Re: [PATCH] Making CFLAGS compilant with GNU Coding Standards
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> >> True. My bad old habit.
> >
> > An elegant method to do that:
> >
> > case --some-long-option in "$1"*) ..; esac
>
> You are almost correct, but you need to realize that I generate
> that long "case -s|--s|--so|--som|..." chain using a script that
> takes all potential option names as its arguments, and makes
> case arms that contain only unambiguous ones, so that I can
> handle --some-long-option and --some-other-long-option sensibly.
My head spins....
Isn't it easier to just use getopt(1)?
> Also you forgot to grok --some-option-with-args=* in your
> version ;-).
Please stop! I'm dizzy already!
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