From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 08:35:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitopt - command-line parsing enhancements
Message-ID: <7vzmhr7fys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1147151209168-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Here's my take at a new command-line option parser to reduce wear on my
> fingers.  It handles both long and short options, permuting, automatic
> abbreviations, required arguments, optional arguments, and bundling.

Taken a superficial look at it.

Sounds nice, might be a tad too ambitious though.  Looks
intrusive at places.

And scary, especially the "eat" macros are very scary.

I have to think about it a bit.