Perceived optparse shortcomings
Jeff Epler
jepler at unpythonic.net
Thu Mar 18 09:42:34 EST 2004
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:49:15AM -0500, David M. Cooke wrote:
> You didn't try it, did you :-)? It doesn't work -- generic options have to
> come before the subcommand w/ cvs.
Well, I tried this and got the error I expected:
$ cvs co -z3
cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option
cvs [checkout aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
.. but now I see that it doesn't actually work that way:
$ cvs diff -z3
diff: invalid option -- z
Jeff
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