From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:47:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.
Message-ID: <20080124204711.GC17765@kodama.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <4798DE6A.1050201@obry.net>

Pascal Obry wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
>> That is ugly.  In a source file which is by no means specific to  
>> git-commit, you cannot possibly mean to check for "amend".
>
> Agreed :( I'll try to come with something better.

Some option parsers avoid this sort of ambiguity by not allowing short
options that take a string to be bundled in the same word with other
short options.

So, for example, git-commit -am<msg> would not be allowed, while
git-commit -a -m<msg> and perhaps git-commit -am <msg> would be allowed.

There could still be problems if there were a --mend option that could
be typoed as -mend.

I don't know enough about compatability to say if this would work for git.

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