Re: [PATCH v7 07/15] bugreport: add git-remote-https version

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2020, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpneacim1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200219222807.GB26221@google.com>

Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

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>> Also, in keeping with the existing code, we would need to use
>> `--build-options` here (this is what `git version` calls the equivalent
>> mode).
>> 
>> _However_.
>> 
>> I like your `--build-info` a lot more than `--build-options` (because the
>> latter is very misleading: the commit and the date of the build are not
>> "options" at all).
>
> Sure. Thanks for saying so.

I don't think anybody would mind introducing --build-info to "git version" as a synonym and deprecate --build-options from it ;-)

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