Hi, On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:51:13PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > That command [rev-parse] was written exactly to parse a command line. > > This is really cheesy, and doesn't really work right (it splits up > > numbers too), but you get the idea.. > > I get the idea, though parse-options is not incremental at all, this > could probably be done, but would complicate the API (we would need to > allocate a state object e.g.). And parseoptions checks that options > getting an argument have one, checks that options exists and so on. It > looks like to me that it's not easy to plumb into rev-parse without > being a brand new independant mode. > > We can do that, if we don't want yet-another-git-builtin/command, but > in the spirit it'll remain a brand new "thing". > > Though I'd be glad to hear about what others think about it. Yeah, rev-parse's only purpose in life is to help scripts. (Even if it is used sometimes -- even by myself -- to turn symbolic names into SHA-1s.) IMHO it makes tons of sense to put the functionality into that command, even if it is not incremental. Ciao, Dscho - 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
