Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: convert to use parse_options()

>        /* Traditionally "pack-objects [options] base extra" failed;
>         * we would however want to take refs parameter that would
>         * have been given to upstream rev-list ourselves, which means
>         * we somehow want to say what the base name is.  So the
>         * syntax would be:
>         *
>         * pack-objects [options] base <refs...>
>         *
>         * in other words, we would treat the first non-option as the
>         * base_name and send everything else to the internal revision
>         * walker.
>         */
>
> The last paragraph does not hold true anymore as far as I understand
> the code. IOW it drops everything in argv after base name. Looking
> back in history, the change was made by 8d1d8f8 (pack-objects: further
> work on internal rev-list logic. - 2006-09-06). Nothing is mentioned
> why it drops the remaining of argv. I suspect this is a regression and
> we should reinstate the behavior as the comment says.