From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:19:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0 RFD] Homogeneous use of short options
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In-Reply-To: <4D594460.1040206@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Proposal:
> Make our use of short options more homogeneous.
>
> ...
>
> Risks:
> Users and scripts may obviously depend on the current options names.
>
> Migration plan:
> Introduce new options first (1.7.x) along with warnings in the release
> notes (optionally, make the commands output warnings). Then change the
> behavior in 1.8.0.

Sometimes I think we could just add a new "root" name for total UI
redesign. Say all commands starting with "gic" (or whatever name it
is, "gt" may be even shorter) will have new/consistent behavior while
"git" ones remain unchanged (or changed gradually and sloooowly). It
happened with bazaar (baz vs bzr) long ago.
-- 
Duy