Re: [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

Cool down.

It is a mere subset of what I already said, so you are not arguing against me at all.

    So the justification should be more like "push does not have any other
    option that deserves a short-and-sweet -n better, it will not have any
    such option in the future, and --dry-run is very often used that it
    deserves to use -n as its short-hand."

and I already said I tend to agree with the first two points. Indeed the first point is an absolute truth (the statement is about the current state).

To answer the second point you need to look into the future, but I do not foresee us adding a very useful option to the command whose usefulness far outweigh that of dry-run and whose name begins with 'n' to want to use it as the short-hand. In such a case, it is likely that we would try very hard to find a name that does not begin with 'n' to avoid the issue.