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Re: [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Dec 18, 2007, 19:05 UTC
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> With the new options "--src-prefix <prefix>", "--dst-prefix <prefix>"
I really would prefer "--[src|dst]-prefix=<prefix>" as a single argument.

I think that's the more common form for long arguments, isn't it (with any short-format arguments usually using the "-L <prefix>" kind of form)?

		Linus
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  9. Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"Johannes Schindelin, Dec 18, 2007
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  19. Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"Johannes Schindelin, Dec 18, 2007
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