Following Kristian momentum, I've reworked his parse_option module quite a lot, and now have some quite interesting features. The series is available from git://git.madism.org/git.git (branch ph/strbuf). The following series is open for comments, it's not 100% ready for inclusion IMHO, as some details may need to be sorted out first, and that I've not re-read the patches thoroughly yet. Though I uses the tip of that branch as my everyday git for 2 weeks or so without any noticeable issues. And as examples are always easier to grok: $ git fetch -h usage: git-fetch [options] [<repository> <refspec>...] -q, --quiet be quiet -v, --verbose be verbose -a, --append append in .git/FETCH_HEAD -f, --force force non fast-forwards updates --no-tags don't follow tags at all -t, --tags fetch all tags --depth <depth> deepen history of a shallow clone Advanced Options -k, --keep keep downloaded pack -u, --update-head-ok allow to update the head in the current branch --upload-pack <path> path to git-upload-pack on the remote $ git rm -rf xdiff # yeah -rf now works ! rm 'xdiff/xdiff.h' rm 'xdiff/xdiffi.c' rm 'xdiff/xdiffi.h' rm 'xdiff/xemit.c' rm 'xdiff/xemit.h' rm 'xdiff/xinclude.h' rm 'xdiff/xmacros.h' rm 'xdiff/xmerge.c' rm 'xdiff/xprepare.c' rm 'xdiff/xprepare.h' rm 'xdiff/xtypes.h' rm 'xdiff/xutils.c' rm 'xdiff/xutils.h' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html