From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 05:59:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-fsck-cache argument processing
Message-ID: <7vekc1nmq4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050521051536.GA9387@havoc.gtf.org>

>>>>> "JG" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

JG> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:08:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> The patch looks good.  Before you proceed to convert the rest,
>> could I ask you to first let us see the list of new set of
>> options and semantics changes, if any ("checkout-cache -f -a" vs
>> "checkout-cache -a -f" immediately comes to mind)?

JG> FWIW most users (including me!) would expect that order of
JG> options is -not- significant.

That set of users includes me.  I was hoping that this round
would not just change things to use argp, but at the same time
attempt to "fix" the problems around argument parsing.  

JG> Typical implementation is agnostic on the ordering of
JG> options, but with a few lines of code in parse_opt() that
JG> need not always be the case.

I think you are responding to my "semantic changes" question,
but I did not mean to say that exactly emulating the current
behaviour is the requirement, nor I meant to ask if doing so is
impossible using argp().  I just wanted to see "the set of
planned fixes" while we are at it.