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Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/1] jgit: create a tag command

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2008, 21:31 UTC
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lördagen den 12 juli 2008 05.42.06 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I think we are at the point where we need to either write a
> > > > #@!*(!@(! command line option parser, import one, or stop writing
> > > > command line programs.  I would certainly appreciate any opinion
> > > > you might have on the matter.
> > > 
> > > a) is a distraction, c) is a backwards step, so maybe b) wins.
> > 
> > So I looked at GNU getopt and its at least smaller than Apache
> > Commons,
> 
> Probably the state-of-the-arg is args4j:
> 
>   https://args4j.dev.java.net/
> 
> It uses Java 5 annotations to setup the argument parsing:

But it doesn't use GNU getOpt's long/short style parsing which is a BIG loss. Maybe we could contribute it? Or at least not design options incompatible with such an option parser.

-- robin
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  1. 1/1 jgit: create a tag commandRobin Rosenberg, Jul 6, 2008
  2. Robin RosenbergJul 6, 2008
  3. Mike RalphsonJul 10, 2008
  4. Robin RosenbergJul 10, 2008
  5. Differences between git-applu and GNU patch (was: [JGIT PATCH 1/1] jgit: create a tag command)Jakub Narebski, Jul 11, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceJul 11, 2008
  7. Robin RosenbergJul 11, 2008
  8. Mike RalphsonJul 11, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceJul 12, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceJul 12, 2008
  11. Robin RosenbergJul 17, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceJul 17, 2008
  13. Robin RosenbergJul 17, 2008

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