Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a script to generate a (long/short) options overview

> On 11/01/2013 12:04 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > Recently a discussion started on the mailing list, which short option
> > shall be best for a long option. (-f being always --force and therefore
> > should not be reassigned another meaning in one particular command)
> > See http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg38456.html
> > 
> > For discussions as these we need a script to easily generate an
> > overview of all available one letter options, and their long option
> > equivalents.
> > 
> > As the list of options was not retrieved fully automated,
> > there might be minor errors or missing items.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/generateShortOptions.py | 460 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 460 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/generateShortOptions.py
> > 
> 
> When trying to send a follow-up patch with the table itself, I got:
> fatal: /tmp/wHpJlnf1r5/0002-Documentation-add-table-viewing-short-long-options-f.patch: 19: patch contains a line longer than 998 characters
> warning: no patches were sent
> 
> Is this an artifical limitation or something that actually makes sense?