From: Shawn Pearce Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:14:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new git-rm command with documentation Message-ID: <20060221221446.GA20744@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <43FB8F31.9090302@people.pl> How about supporting -- to break out of the option loop? The rest of the script will support files named --help just fine but the option parser will just spit out usage information. [...] > +while : ; do > + case "$1" in > + -n) > + show_only=true > + ;; > + -v) > + verbose=--verbose > + ;; > + -f) > + remove_files=true > + ;; > + -*) > + usage > + ;; > + *) > + break > + ;; > + esac > + shift > +done [...] Also I don't think the -f option's whitespace matches the others... -- Shawn.