From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse_options: Add flag to prevent errors for further processing
Message-ID: <7vwskfhpo3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080623195906.GC29569@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Now I'm confused: my understanding is that the diff option parser just
> leaves unrecognized stuff in argv. But isn't that what a
> PARSE_OPTIONS_IGNORE_UNKNOWN flag would do, and isn't that wrong?

I was thinking more about the way how the lower level diff_opt_parse()
works by letting the caller to handle things that it itself does not know
how.

But I say this because I am not interested in "-a -b -c <=> -abc" and
haven't thought about how you would go about parsing something like that
sanely with partial knowledge.