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, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20081120151100.GA2354@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081120150832.GI10491@machine.or.cz>

also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> [2008.11.20.1608 +0100]:

> What is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter

In the context of our discussion, it basically means that if should_do_help calls do_help, then we cannot test should_do_help independently (without mocking out do_help, which is plain ugly). Not that we have a testing infrastructure (yet) anyway, but...

> > True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to
> > a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line?
> 
> No. :-)

Good. I will see what I can do about this. In the mean time, I will just leave things as they are.

-- 
 .''`.   martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
: :'  :  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
 
windoze nt crashed.
i am the blue screen of death.
no one hears your screams.