Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add a simple option parser for use by builtin-commit.c.

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote Mon, Oct 01, 2007:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, I think for this to be more usable for other built-in programs 
> > > it shouldn't modify argv, but instead take both argc and argv (so we 
> > > don't need to have code like "*++(*argv)" ;), parse _all_ options in 
> > > one go, and return the index (of argv) for any remaining options.
> > 
> > We _have_ to modify argv.  For example, "git log master -p" is 
> > perfectly valid.
> 
> Ah, yes this could be nice to also finally have (more universally) in 
> git. But for this to be possible I don't see any reason for it to modify 
> the pointer to argv. Instead, it can just reshuffle entries in argv.