Re: [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 16, 2012, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20120816194552.GA3167@suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v1uj63iyx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:22:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> I am not sure if this is worth it, as it comes from a natural
> "abbreviated options" support, i.e.
> 
> 	-r|--r|--re|--reb|--reba|--rebas|--rebase)
> 		rebase=true

I sent the patch as a (newcomer) friend today asked if it's intentional that -r is undocumented in 'man git-pull'.

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> And I do not think we particularly want to do
> 
>     +-r::
>     +--r::
>     +--re::
>     +--reb::
>     +--reba::
>     +--rebas::
>      --rebase::
>             Rebase the current...
> 
> for obvious reasons.

I agree, however, we already document -q and --quiet, or -v and --verbose in the same manpage, so I think it would be consistent to have -r there as well.

Thanks,

Miklos