From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation: put blame/log -L in sticked form Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87bo27i85i.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> References: <21f40508f83a9407986d29f002adf5ad366c8b88.1382287779.git.trast@inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder , Paul Mackerras , Jens Lehmann To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 30 07:29:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VbPHW-0000JO-Rd for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751966Ab3J3G30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:29:26 -0400 Received: from psi.thgersdorf.net ([176.9.98.78]:58509 "EHLO mail.psioc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751710Ab3J3G3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:29:25 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.psioc.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B884D6516; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at psioc.net Received: from mail.psioc.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.psioc.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5PsGpby1WDvq; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net.thomasrast.ch (vpn-global-dhcp2-62.ethz.ch [129.132.209.62]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.psioc.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4EC84D6414; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:11:29 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Thomas Rast writes: > >> The next patch will document gitk -L, but gitk does not understand the >> separated form ('gitk -L :foo:bar' results in an error). Spell >> git-blame and git-log -L, which are supposed to be "the same" option, >> without the spaces to prevent confusion. > > I agree that this patch may reduce confusion locally, but if we were > to go in this direction, we should be consistent and enforce "stuck" > form everywhere, not just the options you happened to have passed > thru to gitk, but other options such as "-S ", and also > other commands that do not have anything to do with gitk (e.g. "git > commit -C", not "git commit -C ". Otherwise you > will give a wrong impression to readers as if they have to remember > which ones need to use the stuck form and which ones do not. Hmm. Do you want to go there? (I can do it, but it'll obviously touch a lot of documentation.) -- Thomas Rast tr@thomasrast.ch