From: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:14:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-fsck-cache argument processing
Message-ID: <20050521221401.GR22946@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050521150926.GA96606@dspnet.fr.eu.org>

On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:09:26PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:38:52PM -0400, Sean wrote:
> >  -?, --help             Give this help list
> 
> Could you make that '-h' please ?

	I generally think supporting -? and -h is the usual thing.  SysV
loves -?, most real folks like -h.

> >  -V, --version          Print program version
> 
> And that '-v'.  -V traditionally means verbose, -v version.  Yes, I
> know there are counter-examples, but statistically...

	I've never seen -V mean verbose.  I just queried all of
coreutils, and as most folks expect, -v means verbose.  Statistically,
I'd be interested in seeing statistics.  I've never used a program where
-V meant verbose.  I've never used a program that had '--verbose' where
'-v' didn't mean verbose.  tar(1), rsync(1), chgrp(1), chown(1), cp(1),
mkdir(1), all use '-v' for verbose.

Joel

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