From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:05:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: fix parsing of "--foobar=" with no value
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807222104100.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <48863436.50309@free.fr>

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Olivier Marin wrote:

> I would have find it convenient for things like --foobar=$var where foobar
> fallback to default when $var is empty.

--foobar=${var:-default} will expand to --foobar=default when $var is 
empty.

Hth,
Dscho