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Re: Minor inconsistency: "git tag" requires space after -m.

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 27, 2007, 12:48 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271347510.4362@racer.site>
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<ffv8ul$5a2$1@ger.gmane.org>
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
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> It seems options parsing is somewhat broken in git-tag:
> 
> $ git tag -a -m"Annotated tag" annotated-tag
> usage: git-tag [-n [<num>]] -l [<pattern>] | [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f | -d | -v] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] <tagname> [<head>]
> $ git tag -a -m "Annotated tag" annotated-tag
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.3.4
> 
> This is inconsistent with, say, "git commit", that groks -m"Message"
> (without space after -m) just fine.

As it happens, we are in the middle of adding our own option parser which probably solves the issue. Can you please retest when we have that, and use it in builtin-tag?

Thanks, Dscho

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