From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:47:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefix
Message-ID: <7v8wma43ii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1239260490-6318-2-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Is this really necessary?

I see little benefit from giving either of these a shorter alternative,
and a huge downside for potential confusion, especially because nobody
else uses -p for --prefix, and other commands use -p for something
completely different.

The same deal for -f, but it is probably worse because it is typically
used for --force.