From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:00:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Sanity check of git-commit patch, was Re: [PATCH] Making CFLAGS compilant with GNU Coding Standards
Message-ID: <7vd5onvydk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508091618320.7995@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> True.  My bad old habit.
>
> An elegant method to do that:
>
> case --some-long-option in "$1"*) ..; esac

You are almost correct, but you need to realize that I generate
that long "case -s|--s|--so|--som|..." chain using a script that
takes all potential option names as its arguments, and makes
case arms that contain only unambiguous ones, so that I can
handle --some-long-option and --some-other-long-option sensibly.

Also you forgot to grok --some-option-with-args=* in your
version ;-).