Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> + } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--grep")) {
>> + add_message_grep(revs, optarg);
>> + return 2;
>
> This one makes a little less sense since to me '--flag' are always
> booleans, whereas '-m' can take an argument (such as '-m' from 'git
> commit'.
The fact that --grep requires the "=" is amazingly confusing if you're
used to standard GNU long-argument parsing (which many standard
utilities use, and which git's argument syntax is clearly modelled
after), where both forms are equivalent, and documentation typically
only refers to the "=" form, but implicitly allows the separate-args
form.
I'm continually getting tripped up by git's idiosynchratic argument
parsing, and it's nice to see it getting cleaned up a bit...
-Miles
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