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Re: [PATCH 2/2] push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 16, 2015, 20:29 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> At this point, it seems that "--delete" is useful, and nothing else has
> been proposed for "-d" in the intervening years. It seems like a
> reasonable use of the flag to me.

I think there were two (and a half) reasons why we didn't let "--delete" use a short-and-sweet "-d", and I agree that "something else that is more useful did not come" removes one of them.

The other reason was to avoid the chance of fat-fingering, because deleting is destructive, and it is even harder to recover from if the damage is done remotely (and the remaining one-half is that deleting is a rare event).

Even though I do not think the need for the "safety" has been reduced over time to warrant this change, a similarity with "branch" that has "-d/--delete" would be a good enough argument to support this change.

Thanks.
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Message 6 of 7 in “push: add '--delete' flag to synopsis”
  1. 1/2 push: add '--delete' flag to synopsisPatrick Steinhardt, Dec 14, 2015
  2. 2/2 push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'Patrick Steinhardt, Dec 14, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015
  4. Patrick SteinhardtDec 15, 2015
  5. Jeff KingDec 14, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2015
  7. Jeff KingDec 16, 2015

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