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Bug? Short command line options

From
Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2016, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID
<ns19t4$s0t$1@blaine.gmane.org>
Hi All,
is there a good reason why
	git fetch -vpnf
works like
	git fetch -v -p -n -f
and
	
	git commit -avem msg
works like
	git commit -a -v -e -m msg
etc etc, but
	git log -wWp
says
	fatal: unrecognized argument: -wWp
?
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Anatoly Borodin
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