Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/14] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 04:13:34 -0500

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> --- a/builtin/revert.c
> +++ b/builtin/revert.c
[...]
> @@ -612,7 +610,10 @@ int cmd_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  
>  	memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(struct replay_opts));
>  	opts.action = CHERRY_PICK;
> -	res = revert_or_cherry_pick(argc, argv, &opts);
> +	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
> +	me = "cherry-pick";
> +	parse_args(argc, argv, &opts);
> +	res = pick_commits(&opts);
>  	if (res < 0)
>  		die(_("%s failed"), me);
>  	return res;

I'd put the "me =" line right after "opts.action =" if doing it this
way.  This means callers to pick_commits() are responsible for setting
the "me" variable and in particular it will not make sense to export
that function to callers outside of this file any more, right?