From: brian m. carlson Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:04:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reorder msgfmt command-line arguments. Message-ID: <20071203170402.GA13712@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:35:33AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, brian m. carlson wrote: > >> Any program using getopt or getopt_long will stop processing options >> once a non-option argument has been encountered, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is >> set. > >So have you tested that msgfmt indeed does not work with the present >command line? Yes. I run with POSIXLY_CORRECT set to 1, and it does indeed break. I wouldn't have fixed it if it had worked. There are parts of the git testsuite that hang in this case, too, but I have yet to examine them. Rest assured that there are indeed patches coming, assuming the problems are fixable. >Besides, you probably want to send this as a git-gui patch: based on >git-gui.git, not git.git, and Cc'ed to Shawn Pearce. Thanks. Will do. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only a typesetting engine: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187