Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 2, 2006, 14:59 UTC
Message-ID: <43E21E46.4040502@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xsu7kys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> I do not particularly have much preference among --also,
> --with-index, or --incremental, but:
> 
>  - 'with-index' is precise but might be too technical;
>  - 'incremental' is not really incremental -- you can use it
>    only once.
> 
> Because you do not have to say "git commit --also" without paths
> (which _is_ awkward) to get the traditional behaviour, maybe it
> is a good name for that flag (it is also the shortest).
>

Except that -a, which is the logical shorthand, is already taken. How about --include (or --include-index, or --index) and -i? commit being a fairly commonly used command, I think it's safe to assume that most people will read the man-page or the help output if there's something they don't undetstand.

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