From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git? Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:59:18 +0100 Message-ID: <43E21E46.4040502@op5.se> References: <46a038f90601251810m1086d353ne8c7147edee4962a@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90601272133o53438987ka6b97c21d0cdf921@mail.gmail.com> <1138446030.9919.112.camel@evo.keithp.com> <7vzmlgt5zt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060130185822.GA24487@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <7vek2oot7z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4q3jlgw2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhd7ibza2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xsu91vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xsu7kys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, Joel Becker X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 03 09:10:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4w16-0002Wa-Oy for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:10:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751220AbWBCIJY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 03:09:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751234AbWBCIJX (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 03:09:23 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:51119 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751224AbWBCIJX (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 03:09:23 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.104] (gprs2.vodafone.se [217.174.67.69]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA276BCFE; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:09:16 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v8xsu7kys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I do not particularly have much preference among --also, > --with-index, or --incremental, but: > > - 'with-index' is precise but might be too technical; > - 'incremental' is not really incremental -- you can use it > only once. > > Because you do not have to say "git commit --also" without paths > (which _is_ awkward) to get the traditional behaviour, maybe it > is a good name for that flag (it is also the shortest). > Except that -a, which is the logical shorthand, is already taken. How about --include (or --include-index, or --index) and -i? commit being a fairly commonly used command, I think it's safe to assume that most people will read the man-page or the help output if there's something they don't undetstand. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231