From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:19:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Sanity check of git-commit patch, was Re: [PATCH] Making CFLAGS compilant with GNU Coding Standards
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508091618320.7995@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0hzw9sx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > - I don't like the GNU way to abbreviate long options too much...
> 
> True.  My bad old habit.

An elegant method to do that:

case --some-long-option in "$1"*) ..; esac

Ciao,
Dscho