From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:19:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] update-index: migrate to parse-options API
Message-ID: <7vfwvse08z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101024081316.GA29630@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> Here's a helper to make it easier for commands that use parse-options
>> to adopt that nicer behavior.  It writes its output to stdout, so it
>> should only be used to be used to handle the -h option.
>
> Alas, "git update-index" does not use parse-options yet.  But that
> is easily enough changed...
>
> Patch 1 introduces an OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK backdoor to
> parse-options, so new option types (like the three-argument type
> used by update-index --cacheinfo) can be supported without tempting
> inventors of other commands through mention in the public API.

I like the idea of this one.  I imagine it can also be used to finally
whip the command line parsing of "log -L" series Thomas mentored into a
reasonable shape, which needs to parse the -L option that takes <range>
and an optional <path> (not <pathspec>) as arguments.