Re: [PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20071005142140.GK19879@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <1191447902-27326-1-git-send-email-krh@redhat.com>

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> +/* Parse the given options against the list of known options.  The
> + * order of the option structs matters, in that ambiguous
> + * abbreviations (eg, --in could be short for --include or
> + * --interactive) are matched by the first option that share the
> + * prefix.

  Do we really want that ?

  I do believe that it's a very bad idea, as it silently breaks. Most of
the command line switches people need to use have a short form, or their
shell will complete it properly.

  A very interesting feature though, would be to finally be able to
parse aggregated switches (`git rm -rf` anyone ?).

  I also believe that it's a pity that parse_options isn't able to
generate the usage by itself. But we can add that later.

  I've though an alternate proposal, based on your work, for the first
patch.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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