From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:01:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --disassociate alias for --dissociate clone option
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTGZohqPRL2OHcaF5bBwED-bhCsZJkp9g00uqJKWfObaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1424459423-11727-1-git-send-email-mattwhiteley@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Matt Whiteley <mattwhiteley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find the new --dissociate option for clone very helpful but I have a
> hard time with the spelling. It seems reasonable to have an alias since
> one exists for --recursive.

You may be undermining your own argument for inclusion of a new
--dissociate option by citing the aliased "recursive" option.

git-clone's --recursive-submodules was added (see ccdd3da6) for
disambiguation long after --recursive; and not the other way around
with --recursive being more convenient or easier to remember or spell
than --recursive-submodules. The implication of ccdd3da6 is that
--recursive-submodules is favored over --recursive (and perhaps the
latter may some day be deprecated).