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.
next prev parent 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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