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Re: [PATCH 1/8] bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Feb 5, 2007, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20070205091928.GA14234@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<200702051016.16785.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to have long option for each git command single 
> character (short) option, for example --patch as long option to 
> git-diff-tree -p option, etc.
Sure.  And I'd support them when possible in the bash completion.

But I think that sort of change to git should wait for a real command line option parser. What we have now makes things a tad painful.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 6 of 6 in “bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.”
  1. 1/8 bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.Shawn O. Pearce, Feb 4, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceFeb 5, 2007
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2007
  6. Shawn O. PearceFeb 5, 2007

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