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

From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2006, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20060510000826.1a708c03.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlktb2ayy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

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> Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I think optional arguments are still confusing.  We could support both
> > -C (no args) and -C=20 syntax.
> 
> Actually, optional numeric arguments are the norm not exception.
> Think of "diff -u" vs "diff -u20" for example.  Also I think it
> is conventional not to use = for single-letter single-dash
> options, so -C (no args -- use the default number of the
> implementation whatever it is) and -C20 (the same behaviour in
> principle as -C, but use my number instead of the default) are
> sane, while -C=20 _is_ odd.

OK, if we don't support bundling flags at all then -x=y and -xy would do the same thing and pickaxe's -Stext would work too. But we could not make option flag parsing global then (-S=value -> search "=value" or "value"?).

Maybe we should just change -Stext to -S=text or -S text.

Better to support only -x=y or -x y, not both.

> Having said that, I think abbreviating -u20 -n -r to -u20nr
> going too far

Yes

> (-nru20 would be palatable perhaps),

No :)

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