Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'
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René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
- Date
- Aug 29, 2013, 20:03 UTC
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Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
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> Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes: >>> Moreover, the --stage and --work >> >> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply >> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git >> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar). > > Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but I > felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give much > more value, except more characters to type =/
If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well, unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts with --work, too. So you can have a descriptive, extra-long option and type just a few characters at the same time.
René