From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/5] git-tag: introduce long forms for the options Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:03:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5A4AC2.5000908@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <20110825175301.GC519@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vpqjsdrnp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 28 16:55:10 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 1QxglP-000078-My for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:55:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751631Ab1H1Oy7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:59 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:47039 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751580Ab1H1Oy4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:56 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FF320D15; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:56 -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=cNsj5FjHZBbZy/h8S4wvWq wGyUo=; b=Lyg1OVuAGugZofWjynCrtAEtp1qPdHWM1nvRv2Gzw8lMBBChUsl2xn ZDZwy677qXgsEr/+CzzC11Z5pzEw6FO+1ujxnj3o/kKA5KDxQhbMs/3nNPaRo3tq bvlIKYNWeY6nkFqJChX+YmwDi65C4RRDqu8+MlLVKy61fG2cg6STk= X-Sasl-enc: RMkroOG7Y0OL673XMTDgzseo7SVMsTgR72d8n6sHjMtq 1314543295 Received: from localhost.localdomain (p54859364.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.133.147.100]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75219A00255; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:55 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <7vpqjsdrnp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.08.2011 19:11: > Michael J Gruber writes: > >> Long forms are better to memoize, and more reliably uniform across >> commands. > > I think people "memorize" and machines "memoize"; machines will do so just > fine without long forms, but I think you are talking about helping people. Yep. > The part after ", and" lacks a verb, making it a non-sentence. They are better to memorize, and they are more reliably uniform... Maybe drop the comma? > >> Design notes: >> >> -u,--local-user is named following the analogous gnupg option. >> >> -l,--list is not an argument taking option but a mode switch. > > Ok. > > The remainder looks good. Thanks.