From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:54:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ls-remote: don't use '-h' for options
Message-ID: <xmqqk147gblq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <74969200f4dd2993eece8308a72546c3@pascalroeleven.nl>

Pascal Roeleven <dev@pascalroeleven.nl> writes:

> Although I still don't quite agree with the inner workings of this
> command (but I understand the choice because of
> backwards-compatibility),...

Yeah, the unpleasant backstory is that "ls-remote -h" predates the
universal "-h" support offered by the parse-options API by a large
margin.