From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:55:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --parseopt: add the --sticked-long mode
Message-ID: <7B64920A599843F9A122740DFA7A402A@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsivphsel.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
> Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > Add the --sticked-long option to output the options in their long 
>>> > form
>>> > if available, and with their arguments sticked.
>>>
>>> Hmph, doesn't verb "stick" conjugate to "(present) stick (past) 
>>> stuck
>>> (pp) stuck"?
>>
>> Ah, yes it seems. I don't know if 'sticked' is also correct or not.
>>
>> However, 'sticked' is the word that is used in 
>> Documentation/gitcli.txt
>> and Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt.
>
> Yes, I know. That is why I brought it up before we inflict more
> damage to us.
> --

Isn't the origin of the description that it looks like a stick (cane), 
and 'sticked' is a modern verbing of that form? That's what I'd assumed 
anyway.

Googleing "Sticked option" only linked back to Git.

Philip