Subject: Re: [PATCH] parse-options: Allow abbreviated options when unambiguous

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:49:59 -0700

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> > Pierre Habouzit <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > When there is an option "--amend", the option parser now recognizes 
> > > > > "--am" for that option, provided that there is no other option beginning 
> > > > > with "--am".
> > > > 
> > > > And an amend for ultra-abbreviated options (as you noticed on IRC):
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
> > > > index afc6c89..acabb98 100644
> > > > --- a/parse-options.c
> > > > +++ b/parse-options.c
> > > > @@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ is_abbreviated:
> > > >  				abbrev_flags = flags;
> > > >  				continue;
> > > >  			}
> > > > +			/* negated and abbreviated very much? */
> > > > +			if (!prefixcmp("no-", arg)) {
> > > > +				flags |= OPT_UNSET;
> > > > +				goto is_abbreviated;
> > > > +			}
> > > >  			/* negated? */
> > > >  			if (strncmp(arg, "no-", 3))
> > > >  				continue;
> > > 
> > >   squashed on top on the previous, and pushed to my ph/parseopt branch.
> > 
> > Awesome.  Thanks to both of you.
> 
> Hehe, you're welcome.  Pierre even realised that my patch was not complete 
> (it did not catch overly short abbreviations "--n" and "--no"), and that 
> has been fixed, too.
 
> While I have your attention: last weekend, I spoke to a guy from the 
> ffmpeg project, and he said that the only thing preventing them from 
> switching to git was the lack of svn:external support...
> 
> (Of course I know that it is more difficult than that: ffmpeg itself is an 
> svn:external of MPlayer, but maybe we can get both of them to switch ;-)
> 
> Do you have any idea when/if you're coming around to add that to git-svn?

Soonish, possibly within a next week, even.  I have actually have
started a project (using git) that wants to use SVN-hosted repositories
directly submodules; so the fact that I'll actually need something like
it bodes well for getting it implemented :)

-- 
Eric Wong