From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:18:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.
Message-ID: <7vhbv72zjf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090913034031.GO4275@mit.edu>

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Can you point to an example of a git command supporting --dry-run, and
> using -n for something else?

Doesn't commit -n stand for no-verify?  I think that is how it is
documented.

> In fact, reflog already supports '-n' to mean dry-run,

Huh?  "git reflog -n 4" is for show-four-entries-from-the-top.