From: Timo Hirvonen Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 21:31:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] gitopt: a new command-line option parser for git Message-ID: <20060510003141.0d0820ed.tihirvon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v7j4u3nv8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Timo Hirvonen writes: > > > Better to support only -x=y or -x y, not both. > > Didn't I just say -x=y where x is a single letter _is_ odd? > It is either -xy or -x y, not -x=y. Oh, I thought parameters would use same syntax for short and long options. For optional args -C2 would make sense but -C 2 would be ambiguous ("-C -- 2" or "-C2"?). Maybe I'm just too drunk to understand. -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/