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Hamano's message of "Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:59:22 -0800") References: Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:38:08 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Junio C Hamano writes: > SZEDER Gábor writes: > >> know what those short options are good for. E.g. I just learned from >> this patch that the main git command accepts -p and -P options, but I >> have no idea what they are doing.) >> >> So overall I'm somewhat negative on this patch and in general on the >> direction it takes us, but if we do want to go in this direction, then >> it will definitely need more justification than this. > > Ah, yes, I totally forgot earlier discussions we had long ago, e.g., > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20070205024704.GB12917@spearce.org/ > > Completing potential values for a single letter short option is one > thihng, but completing single letter short options themselves, > unless the completion script can offer a short-help somehow, e.g., > > $ git - > -C (chdir there before running the command) > -p (enable pager) > ... > > I agree that it would not be of much use. We did not see any more comments on this thread during my vacation ;-) so let me declare that we will discard this topic. Thanks everybody for particupating, and thanks Wiktor for attempting to make Git a better system.