Re: [PATCH] erofs-utils: manpage: document missing --quiet option for mkfs.erofs

[Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>]

Hi Benjamin,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 05:48:38PM +0000, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-02-11 at 02:28 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > Reported-by: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@posteo.de>
> > Closes: https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/issues/36
> > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> >  man/mkfs.erofs.1 | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/man/mkfs.erofs.1 b/man/mkfs.erofs.1
> > index cc5a3109ac7f..4316214ff1e2 100644
> > --- a/man/mkfs.erofs.1
> > +++ b/man/mkfs.erofs.1
> > @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ Use extended inodes instead of compact inodes if the file modification time
> >  would overflow compact inodes. This is the default. Overrides
> >  .BR --ignore-mtime .
> >  .TP
> > +.B "\-\-quiet"
> > +Quiet execution (do not write anything to standard output.)
> > +.TP
> >  .BI "\-\-sort=" MODE
> >  Inode data sorting order for tarballs as input.
> > 
> 
> Does mkfs.erofs also support the short version -q?

Nope.. generally long options are preferred unless the functionalities
are vitally important so that it deserve a short version (I don't want
to have arbitary option list from `a` to `z`, also if some common
alphabet is used for an uncommon usage, it will be hard to remove or
switch to a more useful usage.)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Drung
> Debian & Ubuntu Developer
>