Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Allow "git log --grep foo" as synonym for "git log --grep=foo".

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 18:14, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

+       } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--grep")) {
+               add_message_grep(revs, optarg);
+               return 2;

This looks good. I've been bitten by git-log's non-standard option
parsing. But there's still a lot of options that need the =, no?:

    21 matches for "="" in buffer: revision.c

                     1163:    if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--max-count=")) {
       1166:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--skip=")) {
       1181:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--max-age=")) {
       1183:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--since=")) {
       1185:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--after=")) {
       1187:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--min-age=")) {
       1189:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--before=")) {
       1191:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--until=")) {
       1272:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--unpacked=")) {
       1297:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--pretty=") ||
!prefixcmp(arg, "--format=")) {
       1304:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--show-notes=")) {
       1346:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--abbrev=")) {
       1362:    } else if (!strncmp(arg, "--date=", 7)) {
       1371:    else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--author=")) {
       1373:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--committer=")) {
       1375:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--grep=")) {
       1385:    } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--encoding=")) {
       1515:            if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--glob=")) {
       1521:            if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--branches=")) {
       1527:            if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--tags=")) {
       1533:            if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--remotes=")) {

I think changing the option parsing so that it handles all the long
options consistently would be very nice (along with some tests). But
just making --grep a special case is more confusing than requiring =
everywhere.