From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:52:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-{list,parse}: allow -<n> as shorthand for --max-count=<n>
Message-ID: <7v8xt4ws5r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060125063325.GA7953@mail.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> I don't agree with POSIX on this point, and I don't see why git should
> be bound to POSIX, especially at the UI level just because it's POSIX.

Unfortunately, it does not matter in the real world that you and
I both do not particularly like "head -n 4".  We will see more
people who feel "-n 4" more familiar than "-4", unlike old
fashioned people like myself.

> ...  Heck, I've
> been wanting GNU getopt_long() option parsing in git for a while...

We find somebody who wants to do this every now and then, it
seems.  Last time somebody brought this up in late May 2005, we
were still a "too rapidly moving" target, adding and changing
options every other day, and the actual implementation went
nowhere while the discussion was reasonably healthy.  If I
recall the discussion correctly, argp instead of GNU getopt was
the list favorite back then...