From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:34:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] completion: add common options for blame
Message-ID: <7vzjv7dowz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130603180701.GJ2192@goldbirke>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

> But providing short options for completion is pointless.  Those who
> know git blame's short options will just type them right away, because
> it requires less key presses than using completion, and those who
> don't know these options will only see -C, -M, etc. and won't have any
> clues what it stands for.


It is not necessarily true that "they won't have any clue"; one
could argue that "-C -M etc" can serve as reminder to people who
once learned but forgot momentarily.

My conclusion is the same, though; "git blame -h" is for those
people.