From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Inconsistency with -a vs -A Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:25:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4DABD971.20108@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bradly Feeley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 08:26:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBhuW-0007Gh-Ot for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:26:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751923Ab1DRGZ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:25:57 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:42658 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355Ab1DRGZ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:25:56 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F77620287; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:25:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:25:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=N4Po1ICu/3Qmy2NFcL7tq1KN0bw=; b=csIMRlFUC4kaw3TR+5SBJZ/olNFBXIlD9DOMZgT4uyAC9dm1jtXzxyK+cerqIF3cCVaO4NasMrg38WCxNhRAobR49NukD3GxITpO0klk6t1eO8OHXkgf3iGMujdHvMUJfT8KNsE3E8O7QJ5CodsSib+dsfqlK9KtVcjNVMmRSFM= X-Sasl-enc: WRxu4g8jwnbU7+GcWNWWtjIgIQUwiz3SM8RVY7M2x+fR 1303107954 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89D204458C3; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:25:54 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Remi/fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bradly Feeley venit, vidit, dixit 18.04.2011 05:20: > I was curious if there was a reason that some command use -a and some command > use -A. For example, to view all branches the lowercase switch 'a' is used, but > when staging all files with add an uppercase 'A'. Of course I always pick the > wrong one when running either command. Is there a reason for the inconsistency? Yes. > Do you think they should be made the same? Yes, I do :) For more details on both "yes", see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167907 Cheers, Michael