From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:10:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] builtins: utilize startup_info->help where possible
Message-ID: <7vlj5uyp4x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101019172953.GC25139@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> In other words, I'm not sure startup_info->help is a good abstraction.
> Maybe (modulo names) it would be better to do
>
> struct startup_info {
> 	...
> 	const char *short_circuit;	/* "-h", "--help-all", "--no-index", or NULL */
> };

I am not sure short-circuit is a good abstraction either; will we have
only one aspect of whatever we can short-circuit forever?