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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: switch to modern syntx for VNC TLS
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To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 28/06/2018 18:29, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote:
> Yeah, in this case I'd rather stick with single dash, for consistency,
> since this example is not applicable to non-system emulators anyway.
>=20
>> I honestly don't understand the crusade against single-dashed options.
> It does cause confusion in some documentation contexts with -object,
> since qemu-nbd/qemu-img/qemu-io all mandated --object instead.

It's okay if you're documenting --object.  But I think consistency
should win when you are showing examples for QEMU; then all options
should use either single or double dashes.

Paolo