From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:48:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Minor inconsistency: "git tag" requires space after -m.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271347510.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <ffv8ul$5a2$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:

> 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