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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 04:19:28 -0500
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to have long option for each git command single 
> character (short) option, for example --patch as long option to 
> git-diff-tree -p option, etc.

Sure.  And I'd support them when possible in the bash completion.

But I think that sort of change to git should wait for a real
command line option parser.  What we have now makes things a
tad painful.

-- 
Shawn.