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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] parse-options: introduce parse_subcommands
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:40:39 +0530
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Hi Junio,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> =C2=A0I found this patch in one of my branches from a long time ago.=
 =C2=A0I
>> =C2=A0haven't written documentation and tests yet because I'm not fu=
lly
>> =C2=A0convinced that I like this.
>>
>> =C2=A0Thoughts?
>
> It looks like a static version of string_list_lookup() and does not
> have much reason to tie it to "subcommand".

How so?  I can use a string_list to keep subcommand->name and stuff
the callback into util.  Where do I put subcommand->help then?
I agree that there's no reason to tie it to subcommand though.

Ram