On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:21 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > +When mixing `-m` and `-F` options, the commit log message will be > > +composed in the order in which the options are given. > > It may be just me, but this new paragraph made me think that we can > give at most one -m and one -F option at the same time in any order, > and multiple -m or -F options are not supported. That, obviously, > is not the impression we want to give to the readers. > > Even when you are not mixing -m and -F, but using -m more than once, > the log message will be composed in the order in which options are > given. So probably the word "mixing" is the primary culprit of > making the sentence easier to be misunderstood. > > When using more than one `-m` or `-F` options, ... > > perhaps. Good call, 'mixing' is not the right word here. Will fix. > The change to this main function looks quite straight-forward. I am > kind of surprised that a very low hanging fruit like this had survived > without getting hit by parseopt a lot earlier ;-) I was surprised too, commit-tree hasn't seen much love over the years. There are certainly others that could benefit from parse-options.