Raman Gupta <rocketra...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 26/07/17 02:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I haven't tried this patch, but would this work well with options
>> meant for the 'git rev-list --parents "$@"' that grabs the list of
>> merge commits to learn from? e.g.
>>
>> $ contrib/rerere-train.sh -n 4 --merges master
>> $ contrib/rerere-train.sh --overwrite -n 4 --merges master
>> $ contrib/rerere-train.sh -n 4 --overwrite --merges master
>>
>> I do not think it is necessary to make the last one work; as long as
>> the first two work as expected, we are good even if the last one
>> dies with a sensible message e.g. "options X, Y and Z must be given
>> before other options" (currently "X, Y and Z" consists only of
>> "--overwrite", but I think you get what I mean).
>
> You're right -- I didn't try all the cases. I wasn't able to figure
> out how to get `rev-parse --parseopt` to deal with this situation, so
> I did it manually. I'm not super-happy with the result, but it does
> work. Look for PATCH v3.
Yes, I think you could squash the two case arms in the later loop
into one i.e.
-h|--help|-o|--overwrite)
die "please don't." ;;
but still the repetition does look ugly.
As a contrib/ material, I do not care too deeply about it, though.
Will queue.
