Re: [RFC] move --show-cdup, --show-prefix, and --show-git-dir out of git-rev-parse.

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Oct 7, 2006, 21:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20061007213603.GB2871@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <eg95a6$2v7$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:14:34PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Martin Waitz wrote:
> > They don't really have anything to do with refs.
> 
> But is it a good idea to add yet another command? We have too many of them
> already...

true

> I'd rather add one command, git-admin/git-config, or just move the options
> to the "git" command. So we would have "git --show-git-dir" in addition to
> "git --git-dir=<directory>".

I thought doing the same for these commands as for --help and --version but wanted to hear some opinions first...

After all, the comment in front of --version talked about legacy, so I was afraid to add more legacy ;-)

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Martin Waitz