Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Use --find- instead of --detect- as prefix for long forms of -M and -C.

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>

Date

Nov 11, 2010, 10:47 UTC

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<201011111147.04365.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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<1289420833-20602-2-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org>

Yann Dirson wrote:

> Rationale: this is both shorter to spell and consistent with
> --find-copies-harder.

[...]

>  -M[<n>]::
> ---detect-renames[=<n>]::
> +--find-renames[=<n>]::

> -	else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--detect-renames=") ||
> -		 !strcmp(arg, "--detect-renames")) {
> +	else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--find-renames=") ||
> +		 !strcmp(arg, "--find-renames")) {

would break backwards compatibility.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch