Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711011129460.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmytycykt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * ph/parseopt (Tue Oct 30 14:15:21 2007 -0500) 23 commits
>  + ...
> 
> It appears 1.5.4 will be, to a certain extent, a "Let's clean up
> the internal implementation" release.  This series should become
> part of it.  Hopefully will merge to 'master' soon, but I
> haven't looked this series very closely yet.

I certainly think this should go in, but it does make one deficiency painfully clear: the remaining shell scripts end up having all the old flags behaviour.

So while you can combine flags for *most* programs, you still won't be able to say things like

	git clean -qdx

just because that's still a shellscript, and doing any fancy argument parsing in shell is just painful.

Is somebody still working on doing the shell->C conversion?

		Linus