From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:53:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction.
Message-ID: <20071217205355.GC2105@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcih6oj8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:42:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You forgot one case.
> 
>     4. Everybody who does _not_ know that we traditionally did not
>        support the form would expect "--abbrev 10" and "-n 4" to work.

I would expect "-n 4" to work, but not "--abbrev 10". But perhaps that
is just me. If that is the expectation, I think the behavior you
outlined is sensible.

-Peff