Re: Sanity check of git-commit patch, was Re: [PATCH] Making CFLAGS compilant with GNU Coding Standards

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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True.  My bad old habit.

An elegant method to do that:

case --some-long-option in "$1"*) ..; esac

You are almost correct, but you need to realize that I generate
that long "case -s|--s|--so|--som|..." chain using a script that
takes all potential option names as its arguments, and makes
case arms that contain only unambiguous ones, so that I can
handle --some-long-option and --some-other-long-option sensibly.

Also you forgot to grok --some-option-with-args=* in your
version ;-).