Re: [PATCH] git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

> ... I think my
> general argument still stands for commands where that is not the case.

Cool down.

It is a mere subset of what I already said, so you are not arguing against
me at all.

    So the justification should be more like "push does not have any other
    option that deserves a short-and-sweet -n better, it will not have any
    such option in the future, and --dry-run is very often used that it
    deserves to use -n as its short-hand."

and I already said I tend to agree with the first two points.  Indeed the
first point is an absolute truth (the statement is about the current
state).

To answer the second point you need to look into the future, but I do not
foresee us adding a very useful option to the command whose usefulness far
outweigh that of dry-run and whose name begins with 'n' to want to use it
as the short-hand.  In such a case, it is likely that we would try very
hard to find a name that does not begin with 'n' to avoid the issue.