From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:22:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Git documentation consistency
Message-ID: <e51f66da0912030822ye1541b4gb1b8a3e07eb72484@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1NG61U-000kn4C@most.weird.com>

On 12/3/09, Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:34:01 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  Subject: Re: Git documentation consistency
>  > I think you are showing ignorance here, as -? is *not* even close to
>  > standard, nor even widely used practice at all.
>
>  I think I should know something about Unix command line and option
>  parsers, having used them for some 25 years or so now.  In fact I've
>  used most every kind of unix that ever was, and I've worked on the
>  source to more than a few.

'?' is what getopt(3) is supposed to return for unknown options.

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marko