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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Pieter de Bie <frimmirf@gmail.com>,
	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About -X<option>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:57:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmykvpq2n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807060342550.3557@eeepc-johanness> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:44:03 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Isn't that obvious?  -X looks like a short option, but the rest of that 
> string does not consist of aggregated short options.

Ah, I see.  Then the issue is not about "not easy to code" but about "not
being consistent".  We should care much more deeply about the latter.

We can change it to "--X<option>[=<value>]" and "-X option[=<value>]"; the
topic is still young, not even documented properly IIRC, and is not
scheduled for 'master' any time soon yet.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05 12:57 About -X<option> Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-05 13:32 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-05 13:48   ` Pieter de Bie
2008-07-05 17:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-06  1:44       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-06  4:57         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-06 11:28           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-06 19:25             ` Junio C Hamano

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