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

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SOSergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2007, 13:14 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> 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?

I'm 100% sure there will be no inconsistencies once you unify options parsing among the tools, but I won't refrain from re-testing this anyway.

-- 
Sergei.
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  1. Sergei OrganovOct 27, 2007
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