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Re: [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git

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THTimo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date
May 9, 2006, 20:10 UTC
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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
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> I'm striving for backwards compatibility with existing usage.  That
> means as a diff option, -C alone works, as does -C20.  I've made -C 20
> _not_ work because it breaks existing usage (where 20 could be a
> filename, or a tree-ish).  -C=20 would mean something
> else,

I think optional arguments are still confusing. We could support both -C (no args) and -C=20 syntax.

> since I wanted to make pickaxe work exactly as it did before:
> -S=var would search for '=var', not 'var'.

Some other options use -x=y syntax so this would be confusing. Pickaxe's -Stext syntax is a bit strange. I think -S text or -S=text would be more logical.

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Message 9 of 13 in “gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git”
  1. 1/6 gitopt: a new command-line option parser for gitEric Wong, May 9, 2006
  2. 2/6 update-index: convert to using gitoptEric Wong, May 9, 2006
  3. 3/6 ls-tree: convert to gitoptEric Wong, May 9, 2006
  4. 4/6 ls-files: convert to using gitoptEric Wong, May 9, 2006
  5. Timo HirvonenMay 9, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2006
  7. Eric WongMay 9, 2006
  8. Eric WongMay 9, 2006
  9. Timo HirvonenMay 9, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2006
  11. Timo HirvonenMay 9, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2006
  13. Timo HirvonenMay 9, 2006

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