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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow detached forms (--option arg) for git log options.

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2010, 15:10 UTC
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Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Hi Matthieu,
> > 
> > Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > 
> > >                    is there any reason why "git log" hasn't been
> > > migrated to parse-option? Or is it only that nobody did it yet?
> > 
> > Please go ahead. :)
> 
> I started it in the past, but never went around to actually do it.
> 
> I started to get rid of most of the bitfields to use explicit or-ed
> fields, but stopped at that, I don't even remember if those patches got
> merged or not.

Why did you feel this change was needed / necessary? Was it limitation of parseopt? Or perhaps it was for portability reasons? Or was it just the matter of code elegance?

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Message 16 of 20 in “Allow detached forms (--option arg) for git log options.”
  1. 0/2 Allow detached forms (--option arg) for git log options.Matthieu Moy, Jul 26, 2010
  2. 1/2 Allow "git log --grep foo" as synonym for "git log --grep=foo".Matthieu Moy, Jul 26, 2010
  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 27, 2010
  4. Miles BaderJul 27, 2010
  5. Jakub NarebskiJul 27, 2010
  6. Matthieu MoyJul 27, 2010
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 27, 2010
  8. Matthieu MoyJul 27, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 27, 2010
  10. Matthieu MoyJul 27, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 27, 2010
  12. 2/2 Allow "git log -S string" as synonym for "git log -Sstring".Matthieu Moy, Jul 26, 2010
  13. Sverre RabbelierJul 27, 2010
  14. Jonathan NiederJul 26, 2010
  15. Pierre HabouzitJul 27, 2010
  16. Jakub NarebskiJul 27, 2010
  17. Pierre HabouzitJul 28, 2010
  18. Jakub NarebskiJul 29, 2010
  19. Pierre HabouzitJul 29, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederAug 1, 2010

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