From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:51:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-checkout-index to use file suffixes.
Message-ID: <20060302065136.GA6377@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrne0bh1p.fr9.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 
> > I thought about using instead:
> >
> >   --stage=all --suffix1=\#1 --suffix2\=#2 --suffix3=\#3
> 
> How about something like
> 
>   --suffixes=:#1:#2:#3
> 
> uses first character as a delimiter to separate the suffixes.  A single
> --suffix option could plausibly provide the suffix if only one stage is
> being checked out, and doesn't have the grim delimiter wart.

Why let the user choose?  '/' shouldn't be permitted as that
(possibly) would try to create a directory also named the same as
the file (a bad thing).  Then its just two formats, depending on
if you want all stages or just 1 stage:

	--stage=all --suffix=#1/#2/#3

or

	--stage=1 --suffix=#1

?

-- 
Shawn.