From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:44:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.
Message-ID: <7vfxar5zsi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1252800302-26560-1-git-send-email-nelhage@mit.edu>

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

> '-n' is the standard way to specify a dry run for other git commands,
> so make 'git-push' accept it as well.
> ---

Sign-off?

Indeed -n is used in many places for --dry-run, but it is not _the_
standard way.

commit, push (as you identified), reflog, and send-email have --dry-run
but -n is not a synonym for it.  Some of them even use -n as a shorthand
for a more often used option than --dry-run.

So the justification should be more like "push does not 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."

I tend to agree with the first two points, but I am not sure about the
third point.  Do people dry-push that often?