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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> I don't agree with POSIX on this point, and I don't see why git should
> be bound to POSIX, especially at the UI level just because it's POSIX.

Unfortunately, it does not matter in the real world that you and
I both do not particularly like "head -n 4".  We will see more
people who feel "-n 4" more familiar than "-4", unlike old
fashioned people like myself.

> ...  Heck, I've
> been wanting GNU getopt_long() option parsing in git for a while...

We find somebody who wants to do this every now and then, it
seems.  Last time somebody brought this up in late May 2005, we
were still a "too rapidly moving" target, adding and changing
options every other day, and the actual implementation went
nowhere while the discussion was reasonably healthy.  If I
recall the discussion correctly, argp instead of GNU getopt was
the list favorite back then...