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Subject: Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:03:22 +0200
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Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki.news@gmail.com>,
	Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
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	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Am 29.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Moreover, the --stage and --work
>>
>> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately i=
mply
>> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but g=
it
>> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=3Dfoo ba=
r).
>
> Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt,=
 but I
> felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really g=
ive much
> more value, except more characters to type =3D/

If you have a --work-tree option then parseopt accepts --work as well,=20
unless it's ambiguous, i.e. another option starts with --work, too.  So=
=20
you can have a descriptive, extra-long option and type just a few=20
characters at the same time.

Ren=C3=A9