From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:48:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] add test cases for the --repo option to git push
Message-ID: <76718490902271248p2de44082ka66645203c9683d4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49A7C3A7.6060202@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> bcc785f (git push: add verbose flag and allow overriding of default
> target repository, 2006-10-30) Linus introduces --repo.

So I still don't get why Linus introduced the option. I'm looking at
bcc785f:builtin-push.c and AFAICT, the following are exactly
equivalent:

$ git push [options]... <repo>
$ git push [options]... --repo=<repo>

Which is why I sent the original message that has spawned this saga. :-)

Here's the abbreviated code in question:

        const char *repo = "origin";    /* default repository */

        for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
                const char *arg = argv[i];
                if (arg[0] != '-') {
                        repo = arg;
                        i++;
                        break;
                }
                if (!strncmp(arg, "--repo=", 7)) {
                        repo = arg+7;
                        continue;
                }
        }
        set_refspecs(argv + i, argc - i);
        return do_push(repo);

--repo can be placed anywhere on the command line, but other than
that, it's identical in effect to specifying the repo as the first
non-dashed argument.

Or am I completely blind?

j.