From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 v4] log: parse detached options like git log --grep foo
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:52:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq39uvzd7e.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlj8nipl9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue\, 03 Aug 2010 10\:16\:34 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> But I thought you were suggesting to [...] never take:
>
> --opt <string> (even when --opt always takes an argument)
>
> because that would further reduce one source of potential confusion
> (i.e. the user needs to remember if --opt always takes an argument or
> not). I thought you mentioned that neither parse-options nor GNU tools
> take "--prune last",
No, I said the opposite: both do.
> "--color auto" as a good supporting argument for this
"grep --color auto" is refused because the "auto" part is optional.
But both "grep --regex foo" and "grep --regexp=foo" are accepted. Same
for "git commit --message=foo" and "git commit --message foo".
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-29 8:20 [PATCH 0/5 v3] log and diff: accept detached forms (--option value) Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] diff: parse detached options like -S foo Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] diff: split off a function for --stat-* option parsing Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] diff: parse detached options --stat-width n, --stat-name-width n Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] log: parse detached options like git log --grep foo Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 22:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-30 8:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30 8:31 ` [PATCH 1/5 v4] diff: parse detached options like -S foo Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 19:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 19:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-30 8:31 ` [PATCH 2/5 v4] diff: split off a function for --stat-* option parsing Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30 8:31 ` [PATCH 3/5 v4] diff: parse detached options --stat-width n, --stat-name-width n Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 18:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-30 8:31 ` [PATCH 4/5 v4] log: parse detached options like git log --grep foo Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-02 18:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-02 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-03 6:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-03 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-03 19:52 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-08-04 2:41 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-30 8:31 ` [PATCH 5/5 v4] log: parse detached option for --glob Matthieu Moy
2010-07-29 8:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] " Matthieu Moy
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