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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] - Convert git-checkout-cache to argp
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>>>>> "S" == Sean  <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

S> Use argp to process command line arguments for git-checkout-cache.  Also,
S> fix things up so that the order of options on the command line no longer
S> matters.  To this end, the "-f" (--force) switch only applies to the
S> individual files given on the command line.   A new forcing version of the
S> "-a" (--all) switch is added as "-A" (--forceall).

I do not like that change at all.  That would break existing
scripts.

Why not just say --force forces checkout even when it is used
with -a?  I do not think anybody sane uses "-a -f" in their
existing scripts nor from the command line.