From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:09:16 GMT
Subject: Re: orthogonal cases of log --date option
Message-ID: <20090306120916.GA3437@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmybzw3el.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:50:42PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Because from the user's perspective --foo={bar,baz,bleep} is about
> > selecting exactly one of {bar,baz,bleep}.
> 
> I do not feel very strongly about this either way, and without any prior
> end user "Huh?" input, I would probably have argued like you myself, but
> I saw the original message from Miles about giving more than one --date
> and getting perplexed to see that it did not work, so...

Interesting. I saw the original message from Miles as "I tried to use
more than one --date, but that seems wrong to me because these concepts
are orthogonal".  But I do recognize that it is somewhat a matter of
perception and style.

Anyway, as our one user in this thread, he has said the separate option
is more clear. So I think we should go with that.

-Peff