Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction.

Pierre Habouzit [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:53:00AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
...

quoted

This is just a quick idea before I go back to sleep, but your earlier
comment on "--no-<an-option-that-is-not-even-boolean>" made me realize
that the alternative I was suggesting earlier would actually work much
nicer, if you introduce "--<an-option-that-take-optional-arg>-default"
magic.

  meeeow I love the idea !

There is a bit more serious issue than coding, actually.

Short options.

A script wants to use default rename detection threshold for unknown
commit $foo whose name might look like a number.  IOW, this

	git diff -M $foo

could be ambiguous.  Obviously, "git diff -M-default $foo" would not fly
very well.