Re: Bring parse_options to the shell

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:51:13PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > That command [rev-parse] was written exactly to parse a command line. 
> > > This is really cheesy, and doesn't really work right (it splits up 
> > > numbers too), but you get the idea..
> > 
> >   I get the idea, though parse-options is not incremental at all, this 
> > could probably be done, but would complicate the API (we would need to 
> > allocate a state object e.g.). And parseoptions checks that options 
> > getting an argument have one, checks that options exists and so on. It 
> > looks like to me that it's not easy to plumb into rev-parse without 
> > being a brand new independant mode.
> > 
> >   We can do that, if we don't want yet-another-git-builtin/command, but 
> > in the spirit it'll remain a brand new "thing".
> > 
> >   Though I'd be glad to hear about what others think about it.
> 
> Yeah, rev-parse's only purpose in life is to help scripts.  (Even if it is 
> used sometimes -- even by myself -- to turn symbolic names into SHA-1s.)
> 
> IMHO it makes tons of sense to put the functionality into that command, 
> even if it is not incremental.