From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:28:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Convert 'git blame' to parse_options()
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806231326580.6440@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6aoirqh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > +static int blame_bottomtop_callback(const struct option *option, const char *arg, int unset)
> > +{
> > +	const char **bottomtop = option->value;
> > +	if (!arg)
> > +		return -1;
> > +	if (*bottomtop)
> > +		die("More than one '-L n,m' option given");
> > +	*bottomtop = arg;
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> Hmmmm.  I actually wanted to eventually allow more than one -L so that we
> can blame two functions inside a file, for example.  Would this make it
> even harder, I have to wonder...

IMHO this would not change anything in the way of making it harder; it is 
just a matter of adding the pairs to a container.  The more tricky thing 
is how to handle a bunch of intervals efficiently, without introducing 
too much ugliness.

Ciao,
Dscho