Re: [PATCH] Allow help/--help/-h to be run outside of a TopGit repo

also sprach Petr Baudis [off-list ref] [2008.11.20.1608 +0100]:

What is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter

In the context of our discussion, it basically means that if
should_do_help calls do_help, then we cannot test should_do_help
independently (without mocking out do_help, which is plain ugly).
Not that we have a testing infrastructure (yet) anyway, but...

quoted

True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to
a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line?

No. :-)

Good. I will see what I can do about this. In the mean time, I will
just leave things as they are.

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