Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction.

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Dec 17, 2007, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20071217212433.GD13004@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071217205355.GC2105@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:53:55PM +0000, Jeff King wrote:

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> 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.

FWIW that's exactly the opposite for me. -n4 is easy to type, and I always do that. Though on a keyboard, ' ' is under the thumb, '=' is harder to catch, so I tend to prefer when CLIs don't force me to use =.

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