From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann Dirson Subject: [PATCH] rationalize diffcore-rename options and their doc Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:27:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1289420833-20602-1-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 10 21:27:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGHGU-0001jm-Uq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:27:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756460Ab0KJU1Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:27:24 -0500 Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.5]:50230 "EHLO smtp5-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756223Ab0KJU1X (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:27:23 -0500 Received: from home.lan (unknown [81.57.214.146]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679F8D4814F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:27:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from yann by home.lan with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PGHGH-0005N1-6r for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:27:17 +0100 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I am ready to take the blame for being the first to introduce --detect-* options in diff-opts, with the directory-rename stuff. However, since --find-copies-harder predates everything and is the only one to be part of a release today, I'd think it would be much more consistent to use --find- as a common prefix. And, last but not least, shorter long options do not hurt. At the same time, I noticed the manpage could benefit from a small improvement.