From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make builtin-reset.c use parse_options.
Message-ID: <7vwsojfn2v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080303170706.GA23210@artemis.madism.org>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:07:57PM +0000, Carlos Rica wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >  Although "--h" still favors "--hard" over "--help":
>> >
>> >         $ ./git-reset --h
>> >         HEAD is now at c149184...
>> >
>> 
>> Pierre, is there a way to give preference to --help over --hard
>> when someone uses --h in command line?
>
>   The problem is that --help (and --help-all for the matter) are "magic"
> arguments that parse-options is not aware of when it deals with
> abbreviations.

Yeah, I do not know if this really matters in real life, though.