Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> I personally think -sstrategy=string1,string2,... is simply a bad taste. >> >> Why force yourself to parse things by having the users to concatenate >> something that the user could give us separated? If you care about the >> order and association between strategy and their options, you can always >> do: >> >> -s strategy1 -X option-1-for-strategy-1 -X option-2-for-strategy-1 \ >> -s strategy2 -X option-1-for-strategy-2 ... > > You mean something like > > $ git merge -s subtree -X --path -X git-gui/ git-gui/master > > Wow. :-) I would envision it to be more like: $ git merge -s subtree -Xpath=git-gui git-gui/master which git-merge internally would turn into: $ git-merge-subtree --path=git-gui HEAD -- OURS THEIRS That way both the external command line (that the end users do care about) and the internal one (that the strategy programmer would care about) look a lot more sensible than your command line, don't they? -- 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
