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Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow mangling short options which take integer arguments

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Oct 2, 2009, 08:26 UTC
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<20091002082633.GA21168@localhost>
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<20091002075012.GB27664@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:50:12AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:55:03PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > And this patch looks even more straight-forward than 1/2, _but_... what 
> > > about cases where there are short options that are digits?
> > 
> > Could you point me to one of those? I did not find any during my
> > non-exhaustive search. We should be able to handle them easily by adding
> > PARSE_OPT_MANY.
> 
> The one that comes readily to mind is "git log -1", but that is actually
> parsed by the revision options parser, which doesn't use parseopt. But
> there are a few done by parseopt:

Oh, I mistakenly thought Dscho was asking about options with single-digit arguments. Thanks for clearing this up.

Clemens
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  1. Shawn O. PearceSep 25, 2009
  2. Nicolas SebrechtSep 26, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierSep 26, 2009
  4. Shawn O. PearceSep 26, 2009
  5. Clemens BuchacherSep 28, 2009
  6. 1/2 do not mangle short options which take argumentsClemens Buchacher, Oct 1, 2009
  7. 2/2 allow mangling short options which take integer argumentsClemens Buchacher, Oct 1, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2009
  9. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  10. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  11. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009
  13. Clemens BuchacherOct 3, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2009
  15. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  16. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  17. Paolo BonziniOct 2, 2009
  18. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  19. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009
  20. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  21. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009

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