From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:21:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse_options: Add flag to prevent errors for further processing
Message-ID: <7v1w2v2zsh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1213758236-979-2-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>

Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> writes:

> This adds the PARSE_OPT_NO_ERROR_ON_UNKNOWN flag which prevents
> parse_options() from erroring out when it finds an unknown option,
> and leaves the original command and unknown options in argv.

I have to say that this conceptually is broken.  How would you tell
without knowing what "--flag" is if the thing in argv[] after that is a
parameter to that option or the end of the options?