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From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:00:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218020042.GA9044@blorf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197915797-30679-6-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:23:15PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> + * when a command line option takes an argument, use the 'sticked' form.

A minor issue:  the word "sticked" reads very strangely to me (in this
spot and several others in your text).  I think something like joined or
attached (or even abutted) would be better, as seen in this altered text
for the spot cited above (with a few other improvements thrown in):

 * when a command line option takes an argument, it is best to use the
   'joined' form.  In other words, write `"git foo -oArg"` instead of
   `"git foo -o Arg"` for short options, and `"git foo --long-opt=Arg"`
   instead of `"git foo --long-opt Arg"` for long options.  If an option
   takes an optional option-argument, it MUST be written using the
   'joined' form when providing the option-argument.

..wayne..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 18:23 [proposal] make parse-options nicer wrt optional arguments (supersedes all my recent posts on the matter) Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: Make callbacks take flags instead of boolean `unset` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23   ` [PATCH 2/7] parse-options: allow callbacks to ignore arguments they don't need to use Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23     ` [PATCH 3/7] parse-options: Let the integer/string cases be callbacks as well Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23       ` [PATCH 4/7] parse-options: let OPT__ABBREV ignore arguments Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23         ` [PATCH 5/7] parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23           ` [PATCH 6/7] parse-options: have a `use default value` wildcard Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:23             ` [PATCH 7/7] git-tag: fix -l switch handling regression Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 18:56               ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 19:03                 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-17 20:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  2:00           ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2007-12-17 18:54   ` [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: Make callbacks take flags instead of boolean `unset` Pierre Habouzit

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