From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:34:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse_options: Add flag to prevent errors for further processing
Message-ID: <20080618033423.GC19657@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080618033010.GA19657@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:30:10PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Agreed. I was just about to write the same thing. As it happens, I think
> in the case of git-shortlog that there is not likely to be such a
> parameter. The only three I see looking over setup_revisions are "-n"
> (which is masked by shortlog anyway), "--default", and "-U" (which one
> would never need with shortlog).

BTW, looking in my personal repo, I have the start of the exact same
patch (except I called it PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_UNKNOWN). I think I
abandoned it when I realized the fundamental flaw with the approach, but
I guess I never got it to the point of sharing with the list.

-Peff