From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:42:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.
Message-ID: <20080126104216.GA13922@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4rp3y6e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:20:41AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I think that is quite a sensible workaround.

  I agree, I think that we should refuse things where the string after a
/one/ dash starts with 3 or more consecutive characters that are also
the beginning of a long option. I think that 2 is usually a bit "short"
to assume that it's a typo. I'll provide a patch soon

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
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