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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-tag: fix fallouts from recent parsopt
	restriction.
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:53:55 -0500
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Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:42:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You forgot one case.
> 
>     4. Everybody who does _not_ know that we traditionally did not
>        support the form would expect "--abbrev 10" and "-n 4" to work.

I would expect "-n 4" to work, but not "--abbrev 10". But perhaps that
is just me. If that is the expectation, I think the behavior you
outlined is sensible.

-Peff