From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: introduce OPT_SUBCOMMAND
Message-ID: <CALkWK0ksMPjjh8EJjJz6wKS6ciF9x59n3KFauJvnB-1D4d4N1w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111208163049.GA2116@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Hi,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> , and create a new
>> OPT_SUBCOMMAND; this is built on top of OPTION_BIT to allow for the
>> detection of more than one subcommand.
>
> This part I am not convinced about.  Usually each subcommand takes its
> own options, so I cannot see this OPT_SUBCOMMAND being actually useful
> for commands like "git stash" or "git remote".

Hm, what difference does that make?  We still have to parse the
subcommand, and subsequently use an if-else construct to parse more
options depending on the subcommand, no?

-- Ram