From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:01:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] merge: Add '--continue' option as a synonym for 'git commit'
Message-ID: <xmqq4m26zbph.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161214152039.swtll7xrmcdwz7bc@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So not too bad (and you could probably refactor it to avoid some of the
> duplication). Though it does get some obscure cases wrong, like:
>
>   git merge --continue --verbose --quiet
>
> I dunno. Maybe I am leading you down a rabbit hole, and we should just
> live with silently ignoring useless options.

I think you need to handle this in parse-options API if you really
wanted to do this correctly.  

<xmqq60mn671x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> may serve as a
reasonable outline for building one.