From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:17:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-subtree: directory mismatch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911260013550.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr76uzju.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do remember some people didn't like -X<option> syntax but I don't 
> think there was any solid counterproposal to achieve a similar goal to 
> satisfy the need to pass arbitrary parameters to the merge strategy 
> backends.

I took exception to the awkward way to specify the option.  A strong hint 
just how awkward -X<option> is: it is hard to implement using 
parse-options.

There is no real reason to do it properly, i.e. with an option 
--merge-option <option> or --backend-option <option> or -X <option> (even 
if "-X" is not really an expressive name, to be real honest).

BTW the same goes for -S<string>, but unfortunately, we have to keep it 
to maintain backwards compatibility.

Ciao,
Dscho