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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls-remote: a lone "-h" is asking for help
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:35:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vehzgfffw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdFq_h474OrLzP+CHj_eSdSp53n8x7jz1ORT16dOhvRdQMP+g@mail.gmail.com> (Sverre Rabbelier's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:09:23 +0200")

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> Should we really have "-h" as a short for anything other than "--help"
> in the first place?

You have been here long enough to know the answer to that question, no?

The answer would be different if you are starting a new project from
scratch and if you are talking about a project with existing userbase.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 18:14 [PATCH] ls-remote: a lone "-h" is asking for help Junio C Hamano
2011-09-16 19:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-16 19:35   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-09-16 19:44     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-16 20:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-16 20:34         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-16 20:53           ` Junio C Hamano

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