From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:17:31 GMT Subject: Re: git cvsimport and case-insensitive config Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vr5n1v74x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta writes: > >> We might be able to skip (2) by relying on the fact that if the >> lowercase is boolean, the uppercase isn't, and conversely. > > That was the idea I wrote in an earlier draft of my response that I later > scrapped.  I started with "cvsimport.a?  If it is 'true' then that is -a; > if it names an existing file, then it is -A."  I continued the draft up to > '-p' vs '-P' (the former would begin with a hyphen, the latter likely > wouldn't).  But I don't think you can reliably guess -s/-S (both strings). (-s likely has a single character, -S more than one. -S is likely to have * or ?, -s not.) > A bigger reason is that, if you have _any_ combination that you cannot > reliably guess, you would either need the user to ask for help, or you > need to convert by reading the configuration file case-sensitively > yourself to come up with a reliable conversion.  I opted for the latter. Would such a configuration work at all? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta