From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:20:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Sanity check of git-commit patch, was Re: [PATCH] Making CFLAGS compilant with GNU Coding Standards
Message-ID: <200508100220.j7A2KNWb005040@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <junkio@cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 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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