From: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 03:10:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/12] t5520: failing test for pull --all with no configured upstream
Message-ID: <CACRoPnT-9Z-GY9Orid+-nUgTGENakOA8DDD8uUBJGMBw_gbqWQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq3838p6jw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> .... This can be
>> done with the current git-pull.sh, but would be easier with the
>> superior C parse-options API.
>
> Just this part, but I thought parse-options API is available to
> scripts via "rev-parse --parseopt".

Yes, it kind of is, but my impression is that it only validates
command-line arguments -- we still have to loop over each of them
which means more code has to be written as compared to the C version
(especially if we want to validate all the git-fetch switches as
well).

Thanks,
Paul