git-commit could allow grouping of short options

git-commit could allow grouping of short options

[Gerrit Pape]

Hi, please see http://bugs.debian.org/407241:

> git-commit could allow grouping of short options, rather than failing:
> 
> $ git commit -avs
> Usage: /usr/bin/git-commit [-a] [-s] [-v] [--no-verify] ...

I personally would like this too, not only for git-commit.

Thanks, Gerrit.

Re: git-commit could allow grouping of short options

[Eric Wong]

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> Hi, please see http://bugs.debian.org/407241:
> 
> > git-commit could allow grouping of short options, rather than failing:
> > 
> > $ git commit -avs
> > Usage: /usr/bin/git-commit [-a] [-s] [-v] [--no-verify] ...
> 
> I personally would like this too, not only for git-commit.

I had some patches to implement this a while ago ('gitopt') but I never
got around to cleaning them up and fixing some bugs.  Hopefully I'll
have time in the next weeks.

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: git-commit could allow grouping of short options

[Jakub Narebski]

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Eric Wong wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:

>> Hi, please see http://bugs.debian.org/407241:
>> 
>>> git-commit could allow grouping of short options, rather than failing:
>>> 
>>> $ git commit -avs
>>> Usage: /usr/bin/git-commit [-a] [-s] [-v] [--no-verify] ...
>> 
>> I personally would like this too, not only for git-commit.
> 
> I had some patches to implement this a while ago ('gitopt') but I never
> got around to cleaning them up and fixing some bugs.  Hopefully I'll
> have time in the next weeks.

It would be nice to also have long, descriptiove option for each short,
single character option of each git command, for example --patch as longopt
alternative to git-diff-tree -p option, etc.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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