From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:38:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option
Message-ID: <20180929193832.GA26553@msg.df7cb.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8t3k9qjs.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Re: Junio C Hamano 2018-09-29 <xmqq8t3k9qjs.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
> I also expect folks who are used to "git grep --re<TAB>" to summon
> the only option of the command that begins with that prefix to start
> complaining that they now have to type "--recurs<TAB>" instead.

Fwiw I was just asking about -r. There doesn't have to be a
corresponding long option if the short one is a no-op.

Christoph