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Re: orthogonal cases of log --date option

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 6, 2009, 12:10 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:58:36AM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> 1) The CLI. You and Jeff don't seem to have an agreement here, but
> frankly, this is the easy part.
> 
> 2) The internal implementation. Your implementation (enum -> bitfield)
> is clever, but Jeff seems to prefer what I suggested (going to a
> struct). The latter is quite a bit more work.

My argument for (2), btw, is that the code is easier to read and more maintainable if it follows the structure of the CLI. But I don't think it's as important as getting the CLI right.

-Peff
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