Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo

From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2008, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20081120145511.GD29789@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081120142702.GG10491@machine.or.cz>

also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> [2008.11.20.1527 +0100]:

> Why is this so complicated? Can't you just do_help from
> should_do_help()?

Yes, I could, but that would be in conflict with my understanding of the Law of Demeter.

> The overall semantics seems strange anyway, though - it seems that
> 'tg mail --help -r' will try to show help for '-r' instead of
> 'mail'.

True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line?

Cheers,

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