On 24/12/2021 18:30, Lemuria wrote: > > > On 25/12/2021 2:13 am, Philip Oakley wrote: >> On 24/12/2021 14:38, Lemuria wrote: >>> #=< TLDR: Where's the code for git's internal command line parser? >>> >===# >>> >>> I'm interested in the internals of git, more specifically it's command >>> line parser. >> >> One place to start is https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/git.c >> > > Wait, is all of Git just one big executable or are there many > executables and `git` is just the front-end for accessing the > separate git executables, such as say, the one for processing > commits? > Yes, `git` is a front end. If you are on Windows, it gets even more interesting because all the individual sub-commands are just hard links back to the single git.exe that then links to those sub-command's code. >>> >>> Does Git use a library like getopt for it's command line handling, or >>> does it use a custom parser? >>> >>> If possible, I would appreciate being redirected to the source code >>> files that handle this. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Lemuria >> >> Philip >>
