From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:24:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt restriction. 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: > 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 =. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org