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Re: About -X<option>

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2008, 04:57 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Isn't that obvious?  -X looks like a short option, but the rest of that 
> string does not consist of aggregated short options.

Ah, I see. Then the issue is not about "not easy to code" but about "not being consistent". We should care much more deeply about the latter.

We can change it to "--X<option>[=<value>]" and "-X option[=<value>]"; the topic is still young, not even documented properly IIRC, and is not scheduled for 'master' any time soon yet.

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