From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [RFC] git-fsck-cache argument processing Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:14:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20050521221401.GR22946@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <4870.10.10.10.24.1116646732.squirrel@linux1> <20050521150926.GA96606@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sean , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 22 00:17:54 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZcFK-0006kE-UI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 May 2005 00:15:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261658AbVEUWQO (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 18:16:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261661AbVEUWQO (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 18:16:14 -0400 Received: from rgminet02.oracle.com ([148.87.122.31]:24270 "EHLO rgminet02.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261658AbVEUWQM (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 18:16:12 -0400 Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.12]) by rgminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j4LME2H1018597; Sat, 21 May 2005 16:14:02 -0600 Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j4LME2Ou031430; Sat, 21 May 2005 16:14:02 -0600 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.118.41]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j4LME2M4031425; Sat, 21 May 2005 16:14:02 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DZcEL-0002gK-Sv; Sat, 21 May 2005 15:14:01 -0700 To: Olivier Galibert Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050521150926.GA96606@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:09:26PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:38:52PM -0400, Sean wrote: > > -?, --help Give this help list > > Could you make that '-h' please ? I generally think supporting -? and -h is the usual thing. SysV loves -?, most real folks like -h. > > -V, --version Print program version > > And that '-v'. -V traditionally means verbose, -v version. Yes, I > know there are counter-examples, but statistically... I've never seen -V mean verbose. I just queried all of coreutils, and as most folks expect, -v means verbose. Statistically, I'd be interested in seeing statistics. I've never used a program where -V meant verbose. I've never used a program that had '--verbose' where '-v' didn't mean verbose. tar(1), rsync(1), chgrp(1), chown(1), cp(1), mkdir(1), all use '-v' for verbose. Joel -- "The nearest approach to immortality on Earth is a government bureau." - James F. Byrnes Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127