Re: [PATCH v2] cli: add -v and -h shorthands

From: Garrit Franke <garrit@slashdev.space>
Date: Mar 31, 2022, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID: <f3935840-e2a0-953e-0e7c-ac921d414ddc@slashdev.space>
In-Reply-To: <220331.86tubfrngz.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

On 31.03.22 02:07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 31 2022, Garrit Franke wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 30 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>>> Sorry, but it is unclear why it is a good thing.
>>
>> My main motivation behind this change was a standardized user
>> experience across tools. Many users use these shorthands out of habit
>> to get an overview of a program. Seeing the command fail and having to
>> retype it in a longer form creates unnecessary friction between the
>> user and the program.
> 
> I think this is a good trade-off in this case. I.e. -v and -h are
> commonly understood.

An interesting observation I just made is that curl [0] uses both "--verbose" and "--version" on the top level [1][2] including shorthands. "-v" corresponds to "verbose", "-V" corresponds to "version.

Not that I'm a fan of this clutter, but it's a possible path to go down if we actually needed a second shorthand using this letter.

[0]: https://github.com/curl/curl [1]: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/cmdline-opts/version.d [2]: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/cmdline-opts/verbose.d