Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.

> Some option parsers avoid this sort of ambiguity by not allowing short
> options that take a string to be bundled in the same word with other
> short options.
>
> So, for example, git-commit -am<msg> would not be allowed, while
> git-commit -a -m<msg> and perhaps git-commit -am <msg> would be allowed.
>
> There could still be problems if there were a --mend option that could
> be typoed as -mend.
>
> I don't know enough about compatability to say if this would work for git.