Hi,

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
> 
> > Third, it would be nice to allow passing extra parameter(s) to the
> > backends, but I do not know what concept is the best here. The
> > strategy1=foo,stategy2=bar limits the input to a single string. Is that
> > enough? Given that recursive=theirs was considered harmful, we don't
> > have too much examples;...
> 
> I personally think -sstrategy=string1,string2,... is simply a bad taste.
> 
> Why force yourself to parse things by having the users to concatenate
> something that the user could give us separated?  If you care about the
> order and association between strategy and their options, you can always
> do:
> 
> 	-s strategy1 -X option-1-for-strategy-1 -X option-2-for-strategy-1 \
> 	-s strategy2 -X option-1-for-strategy-2 ...

You mean something like

	$ git merge -s subtree -X --path -X git-gui/ git-gui/master

Wow. :-)

Speechless,
Dscho

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