From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:46:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff-*: Allow "--name-only -z" as alias for "--name-only-z"
Message-ID: <7vu0iwy62h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507142205580.19183@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> That said, I have been hating that diff options parsing for
>> quite a while, and I've been thinking about cleaning it up along
>> the lines I'll outline here, but have not done anything about
>> it.  Care to help me out?
>
> I didn't do what you suggested, but I _did_ split the "format" up into 
> "format + line_termination", which in my opinion cleaned up part of it a 
> _lot_.

Agreed 100%.  Regardless of the further cleanup I suggested,
what you did was something I should have done in the first
place.  Thanks for the cleanup.