Re: git.c option parsing

>   There is a simple way to do that, that wouldn't conflict with the git
> grep -e one, that would be to define an array of "Special" flags, in a
> macro, and have every builtin using parseopt adding that macro at the
> end.
> 
>   Then in git.c, you would have to scan for the command name when called
> through `git --opt1 --opt2 foo`, and pass it to parseopt with as argc
> the position of `foo` in the argument array. Parseopt will trust you for
> it, and if it returns a non zero count, you have to barf, then you just
> need to work on the rest of the array. That would mean in pseudo code
> that this would work like:
> 
>     // ...
>     /* when in `git --opt1 --opt2 foo -a -b -c` mode: */
>     int cmd_pos = git_find_builtin_command_name(argc, argv);
>     int count = parse_options(cmd_pos, argv, git_generic_options,
> 	"git [special-options] cmd [options]", 0);
>     if (count)
> 	die("unknown git command: `%s`", argv[0]);
>     argv += cmd_pos;
>     argc -= cmd_pos;
>     /* here we simulate an argv of {"foo", "-a", "-b", "-c"} */
> 
>   Of course this only works on builtins that do support parseopt other
> ones will need the massage you describe. For them the sole thing to
> change would be to replace the OPT_END() with a GIT_SPECIAL_OPTS() or
> sth alike.