From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:06:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_CUSTOM_ARGH for complicated argh's
Message-ID: <4A1116FF.8030008@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmy9aetc8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> You are asking a wrong person.  I am terrible at naming things; think
> "rerere" ;-).
>
> But I think custom-arghelp is much better than multargs.  You are asking
> "use this help for argument value _literally_", so another possibility
> perhaps is PARSE_OPT_ARGHELP_LITERAL.
>
> After all, there probably are many other valid reasons why you may not
> want "s/.*/<&>/" blindly applied to your string.  One reason may be
> because the string describes multiple arguments, but I suspect that it is
> not the only one.  It is better to name the option after what it does,
> than naming it after one sample reason why you might want to use that
> option.

Ok. I think PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGH might be good; until someone comes up
with a better one of course.