On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:06:04AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > No we can't. And I believe that such a thing is definitely bad practice > :/ So if you really need to, we will have to add some PARSE_OPT_STICKARG > or sth alike that would check that the argument was "sticked" to the > option either with `-wA,B,C` or `--long-opt=A,B,C` depending on the fact > that an option is short or long. Yes, I am not sure if the right solution is to just say "we are changing how -w works". Because it either must change, or it must be inconsistent with the rest of the option parsing for the rest of eternity. > Though note that you can't migrate things that use init_revisions and so > on to parseoptions yet, because revisions also have dashed tokens (--not > e.g.) and that the first run of parse_options will just hate it and Ah, yes. I hadn't really considered that angle yet (my basic testing had just been on non-dashed revision parameters). I will table this patch for now, then, since it obviously is too complex for v1.5.4. Thanks for your input. -Peff - 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