From: Mike Ralphson Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:45:16 GMT Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/1] jgit: create a tag command Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080711020507.GD31862@spearce.org> 2008/7/11 Shawn O. Pearce : > Mike Ralphson wrote: >> >> Loving the make_jgit stuff. > > So making jgit a single stand-alone, portable shell script for > command line usage was a good idea? ;-) It certainly seems so to me. It's a nice quick way of seeing what's implemented (I was toying with adding a jgit help command which would reflect over the TextBuiltins). I'm not sure which if any platforms would eventually be better off with a commandline jgit than trying to port c-git though. > I think we are at the point where we need to either write a > #@!*(!@(! command line option parser, import one, or stop writing > command line programs. I would certainly appreciate any opinion > you might have on the matter. a) is a distraction, c) is a backwards step, so maybe b) wins. I don't know what the state of the art of Java option parsers is but there is a port of GNU getopt [1] which might drop in quite easily. Mike PS apologies for the patch format, I'm stuck with Outlook or gmail, and a recalcitrant firewall for the moment. [1] http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/download.html