From: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:51:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/9 v4] difftool: fix regression in '--prompt' options
Message-ID: <CAFouetjqzAwCe3mHkpJB4Xod4rJEF9OD77ch906TGUd9+-KZWA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <871uoljbe9.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> I really do not like the direction in which this series is going.  We do
>> not have a similar --no-gui option to defeat --gui option that may appear
>> earlier on the command line, but when we fix that bug (isn't it a bug?),
>> we would have to teach this loop about that option, wouldn't we?

Of course, Thomas is correct and the limitation was with my use of
Getopt::Long rather than the module itself.

v5 of the patch will use Getopt to parse the '--[no-]prompt' options
again.  I will also add a new patch to the series to implement
'--no-gui'.


> Limitations?  You can basically steal code from git-send-email.  As an
> example:

Thank you for the example...I should have found this when I read the
documentation earlier.