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Re: [RFH] Janitor projects around core GIT

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JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
May 17, 2005, 04:56 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  * Rewrite command line parsing code, probably using GNU getopt.
>    I have three gripes about option parsing in the current code:

Use argp. It supports short and long options, and is highly flexible. "info argp" should work on most Linux boxes.

It's in glibc, and if people care about porting git to Solaris/whatever, there is a GPL'd version already out there.

	Jeff
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