On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 09:10:09PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > @@ -1785,15 +1785,15 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg > } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--author-date-order")) { > revs->sort_order = REV_SORT_BY_AUTHOR_DATE; > revs->topo_order = 1; > - } else if (starts_with(arg, "--early-output")) { > + } else if (skip_prefix(arg, "--early-output", &optarg)) { > int count = 100; > - switch (arg[14]) { > + switch (*optarg) { > case '=': > - count = atoi(arg+15); > + count = atoi(optarg + 1); > /* Fallthrough */ > case 0: > revs->topo_order = 1; > - revs->early_output = count; > + revs->early_output = count; > } What happens if I say "--early-output-foobar"? There should probably be a "default" here that rejects it. Though we'd probably to goto to get to the unknown block, yuck. Perhaps we could do: if (skip_prefix(arg, "--early-output", &optarg) && (*optarg == '=' || !*optarg)) { int count = *optarg ? atoi(optarg + 1) : 100; revs->topo_order = 1; revs->early_output = count; } Alternatively, a helper like: int match_opt(const char *have, const char *want, const char **argout) { const char *arg; if (!skip_prefix(have, want, &arg)) return 0; if (!*arg) *argout = NULL; else if (*arg == '=') *argout = arg + 1; else return 0; return 1; } would let us do: if (match_opt(arg, "--early-output"), &optarg)) { int count = optarg ? atoi(optarg) : 100; ... } which is a little nicer and could maybe help other options (I didn't see any, though). If we're going to go that route, though, I suspect there may be some helpers we already have. Looks like parse_long_opt() is almost there, but doesn't handle options. I wonder if we could reuse bits of parse-options here (or even better, just parse-optify many of these). Anyway, none of that is caused by your patch, but at least doing the minimal fix (my first hunk) seems like it fits into your series. -Peff