From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:20:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check for -amend as a common wrong usage of --amend.
Message-ID: <7vd4rp3y6e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080124204711.GC17765@kodama.kitenet.net>

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, I think that is quite a sensible workaround.