From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:44:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: add per-option flag to stop abbreviation
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjB_MZqG6QN8gcmdQ2Me9GWmr5HJ8TX8cj9fHck8y75XA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <patch-1.1-d2ae423d1ad-20220311T094315Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:45 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So let's tweak this rule to be more narrowly scoped, now we'll allow
> abbreviated options regardless of PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN being set for
> parse_options(), but we'll provide individual options an opt-out. By
> using that opt-out for "--output-directory" we can have that case work
> without overzealously disallowing others.

Thanks, this looks much more obvious to me than the odd
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN logic was. And would seem to obviate the need
for my hacky short aliases.

                Linus