Option --config-file fails

[Jari Häkkinen]

Trying to set config file with the below command fails.

svndigest --copyright --config-file=path/to/config

svndigest: invalid option: --config-file=path/to/config
Type `svndigest --help' for usage.

According to the help the option should be used as

--config-file=ARG   configuration file [<ROOT>/.svndigest/config]       

The below command works

svndigest --copyright --config-file path/to/config

[Peter Johansson]

Ok, so the question is should we fix the --help output or the comandline parsing?

So the alternatives are:

1. Allow --config-file=ARG
2. Allow --config-file ARG and change --help output appropriately.

A third option is to allow both --config-file=ARG and --config-file ARG. What is standard?

[Peter Johansson]

After looking into the code, it looks like this is an issue also for --root and --target.

[Peter Johansson]

I tried cp --target-dir=tmp foo and cp --target-dir tmp foo and they resulted in same thing, which is that foo was copied to directory tmp. I guess this implies option 3 in discussion above.

I thiunk we should go for option 3. Options taking argument should work both with --option=arg as well as --option arg.

[Peter Johansson]

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