From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:20:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801241818441.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1201198439-3516-1-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Pascal Obry wrote:

> diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
> index 7a08a0c..248515d 100644
> --- a/parse-options.c
> +++ b/parse-options.c
> @@ -233,6 +233,13 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> +		if (!strcmp(arg + 1, "amend")) {
> +		        error("-amend looks suspicious, don't you meant --amend\n");
> +		        args.argc--;
> +		        args.argv++;
> +		        break;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (arg[1] != '-') {
>  			args.opt = arg + 1;
>  			do {

That is ugly.  In a source file which is by no means specific to 
git-commit, you cannot possibly mean to check for "amend".

I don't like it,
Dscho