From: jidanni@jidanni.org Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:55:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt: Emphasize -o more Message-ID: <87prisi17h.fsf@jidanni.org> In-Reply-To: <7vhc44gowr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> All I know is the user had better not forget -o or else his precious mailbox will be interpreted as something else... Actually the problem is with builtin-mailsplit.c, $ git mailsplit -o fatal: unknown option: -o One big tangle. So I would just say + certain backward compatibility mode (that we won't detail here).