From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:41:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow mangling short options which take integer arguments
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910021040260.18640@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20091002082633.GA21168@localhost>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:50:12AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:55:03PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And this patch looks even more straight-forward than 1/2, _but_... what 
> > > > about cases where there are short options that are digits?
> > > 
> > > Could you point me to one of those? I did not find any during my
> > > non-exhaustive search. We should be able to handle them easily by adding
> > > PARSE_OPT_MANY.
> > 
> > The one that comes readily to mind is "git log -1", but that is actually
> > parsed by the revision options parser, which doesn't use parseopt. But
> > there are a few done by parseopt:
> 
> Oh, I mistakenly thought Dscho was asking about options with 
> single-digit arguments. Thanks for clearing this up.

I was actually thinking both of "git log -11" as well as out-of-tree users 
of parse-options.

Ciao,
Dscho