From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo
Message-ID: <20081120150832.GI10491@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20081120145511.GD29789@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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.

What is that?

> > 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