From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:54:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] completion: add git status
Message-ID: <xmqq8tymp385.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160603171711.GC3858@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I know not everybody will the "natural thing" I claim, and if it were
> easy to support everywhere, I don't mind doing it. But I suspect
> (without thinking very hard on it) that it would make those case
> statements a bit harder to read and maintain.

Oh, I agree with that 100%.  I didn't mean to suggest (let alone to
demand) to support the possible truncations.

I simply was hoping that Thomas would respond with your "For a user
who uses tab completion, it is natural to use --unt<TAB> so by the
time we use find-on-command-line, we can expect the fully-spelled
form" when I asked about "--unt=no"; that would give us a warm and
fuzzy confirmation that the patch author has thought things through
when designing the new feature.