Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: Isn't the origin of the description that it looks like a stick (cane), and 'sticked' is a modern verbing of that form? That's what I'd assumed anyway. Googleing Sticked option only linked back to Git. I know web is not the authoritative source of

Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-26 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long form if available, and with their arguments

Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 10/25/2013 10:18 PM, Nicolas Vigier wrote: Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long form if available, and with their arguments sticked. Contrary to the default form (non sticked arguments and short options), this can be parsed unambiguously when using options

Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long form if available, and with their arguments sticked. Hmph, doesn't verb stick conjugate to (present) stick (past) stuck (pp) stuck? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-25 Thread Nicolas Vigier
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long form if available, and with their arguments sticked. Hmph, doesn't verb stick conjugate to (present) stick (past) stuck (pp) stuck?

Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode

2013-10-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: Nicolas Vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long form if available, and with their arguments sticked. Hmph, doesn't verb stick