From: martin f krafft Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:55:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo Message-ID: <20081120145511.GD29789@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> In-Reply-To: <20081120142702.GG10491@machine.or.cz> also sprach Petr Baudis [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, -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems this space intentionally left occupied.