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On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 04:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> And the second issue is the last point in the "implications"
> list above.  You are right, and I stand corrected.  Our scripts
> should consistently use dash form.
> 
> One thing that bothers me is that we need to keep encouraging
> users to use dashless form from the command line, while we
> update our scripts to use dash form.  What a contradicting and
> confusing situation X-<.

I think it has a philosophical rationale, though.

While we want to proved an abstraction layer to the
user through the "git" wrapper, we still want to be
precise internally within the scripts themselves.

Or so.

jdl