From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:54:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090913035421.GP4275@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090913034031.GO4275@mit.edu>
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:40:31PM -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Can you point to an example of a git command supporting --dry-run, and
> using -n for something else? I personally would find that confusing,
> since -n is a common alias for dry-run both inside and outside of git
> (c.f. make, rsync, libtool). I guess patch(1) has that property, but
> none of your examples from git use -n to mean something else.
Oops, I missed 'commit' in your list, which I see (as of recently) has
that property. In that case, though, --dry-run was added after an
established -n option had been there for a long time; I think my
general argument still stands for commands where that is not the case.
- Nelson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-13 0:05 [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run Nelson Elhage
2009-09-13 2:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 3:40 ` Nelson Elhage
2009-09-13 3:54 ` Nelson Elhage [this message]
2009-09-13 5:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 6:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 17:07 ` Nelson Elhage
2009-09-13 5:18 ` Junio C Hamano
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