From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:36:48 GMT Subject: Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <521FA90A.9040903@web.de> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, René Scharfe wrote: > Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras: >> >> Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> Felipe Contreras writes: >>>> >>>> Moreover, the --stage and --work >>> >>> >>> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply >>> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git >>> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar). >> >> >> Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but >> I >> felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give >> much >> more value, except more characters to type =/ > > > If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well, > unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts with --work, too. So you > can have a descriptive, extra-long option and type just a few characters at > the same time. Right, but what do we use in the documentation? Writing --work-tree in the 'git reset' table for example would be rather ugly. I'm fine with --work-tree, but I think it would be weird to have short-hands in the documentation, although not entirely bad. -- Felipe Contreras