On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jeff King wrote:

quoted text
> We already detect invalid input to these functions, but we
> simply exit with an error code, never saying anything as
> simple as "your input was wrong". Let's fix that.
> 
> Before:
> 
>  $ git diff -CM
>  $ echo $?
>  128
> 
> After:
> 
>  $ git diff -CM
>  error: invalid argument to -C: M
>  $ echo $?
>  128
> 
> There should be no problems with having diff_opt_parse print
> to stderr, as there is already precedent in complaining
> about bogus --color and --output arguments.

Thank you. I've had a note to myself to fix this for the past month, and still haven't gotten around to it. Glad to see that procrastinating pays off! ;)

-Kevin Ballard--
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