From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:36:56 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2018, #01; Wed, 10)
Message-ID: <xmqqbm7zb81z.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <ca3b162d-d1c6-1ed1-cb20-4232d91f7b51@talktalk.net>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

> It would be nice if the parsing used starts_with(option_name, user_text)
> rather than strcmp() as well. Also I think --color-moved=no is valid as
> a synonym of --no-color-moved but --color-moved-ws=no is not supported.

I am not sure about starts_with().  Do you mean we should accept
"--color-mo", as that is a prefix of "--color-moved" that is not
shared with any existing option, until we gain a different option
"--color-more"?

If you mean "--color-moved-ws=no" (or "--no-color-moved-ws") as a
way to countermand an earlier --color-moved-ws=<something> on the
command line, I fully agree that it is a good idea.