From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:10:35 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow detached forms (--option arg) for git log options. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100727144639.GU2504@madism.org> Pierre Habouzit writes: > 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? -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git