From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:57:36 GMT
Subject: Re: About -X<option>
Message-ID: <7vmykvpq2n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807060342550.3557@eeepc-johanness>

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.