Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
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> 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.
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> > 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?
No. :-)
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>