From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-subtree: directory mismatch
Message-ID: <32541b130911251545x212cc55el9f8d4bc44eadd45b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091125234122.GA31422@atjola.homenet>

2009/11/25 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
> On 2009.11.25 18:20:45 -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> I read the earlier thread and I still don't quite understand this
>> point.  What makes it difficult?
>
> I guess it's -Xfoo vs. -X foo (note the space). Same deal with log
> -S<string>. "git log -S foo" would look for an empty string (I guess)
> being added/removed in some commit in foo's history, while "git log
> -Sfoo" looks for "foo" being added/remove in HEAD's history.

Oh.  Ouch.  Isn't it standard for options-that-take-string-parameters
to always *require* that parameter?  This seems to be how getopt
works.  Basically "-X foo" is the same as "-Xfoo" in that system.

If parse_options doesn't already do this, should I try to add it somehow?

Avery