From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:20:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] archive: use parseopt for local-only options
Message-ID: <7v3adnlqby.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49B40CC1.2090906@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> The parseopt parser allows multiple occurrences of --remote and --exec
> unlike the previous one; the one specified last wins.  This looseness
> is acceptable, I think.

I agree.

If we care about this very deeply, we can add "this option is supposed to
be singleton" option to the parse_options infrastructure.  Besides, the
"last one wins" rule is often more convenient than "there has to be at
most one" rule in real life.