From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:38:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bundle: rewrite builtin to use parse-options
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m89D02aku8J0OXbpyrovHCOpsYS4Qpx2jH-pFG4rOG2A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111208170319.GD2394@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Hi,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Sure, you can't create a
>> bundle named "verify", but that's the compromise you'll have to make
>> if you don't want to type out "--" with each option, no?
>
> Having to type "--" or prefix with "./" to escape ordinary filenames
> that do not start with "-" would be completely weird.

Hm, do you have any suggestions to work around this?  Can we use
something like a parse-stopper after the the first subcommand is
encountered, and treat the next argument as a non-subcommand (filename
or whatever else)?

-- Ram