From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefix Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:47:49 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8wma43ii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1239260490-6318-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <1239260490-6318-2-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, =?utf-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9?= Scharfe To: =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 09 10:50:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LrpxX-0003dR-I6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:50:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761448AbZDIIsd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:48:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761592AbZDIIsd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:48:33 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:51431 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761326AbZDIIs3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:48:29 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2480EA9A21; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:48:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7896DA9A1E; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:48:12 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 31E91812-24E3-11DE-8D94-BB14ECB1AA3C-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Is this really necessary? I see little benefit from giving either of these a shorter alternative, and a huge downside for potential confusion, especially because nobody else uses -p for --prefix, and other commands use -p for something completely different. The same deal for -f, but it is probably worse because it is typically used for --force.