* the option --label-nested of sfdisk
@ 2014-10-20 19:52 Benno Schulenberg
2014-10-21 9:05 ` Karel Zak
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From: Benno Schulenberg @ 2014-10-20 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Util-Linux
Hi,
Recently the option --label-nested (to specify the type of a nested label
in a GPT) has been added to sfdisk. But this name, --label-nested, it...
doesn't sound very English, it is not how one would say this in English.
Upcoming patch changes it to --nested-label, also because when using
long options it is enough to use the first few letters of an option to
choose one unequivocally, but when having both --label and --label-nested
one can no longer do something like "--lab bsd". After the patch one can
do that again, /and/ use "--nest bsd" too, which is short and very clear.
Benno
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* Re: the option --label-nested of sfdisk
2014-10-20 19:52 the option --label-nested of sfdisk Benno Schulenberg
@ 2014-10-21 9:05 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-21 19:43 ` Benno Schulenberg
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From: Karel Zak @ 2014-10-21 9:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benno Schulenberg; +Cc: Util-Linux
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:52:18PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Recently the option --label-nested (to specify the type of a nested label
> in a GPT) has been added to sfdisk. But this name, --label-nested, it...
> doesn't sound very English, it is not how one would say this in English.
>
> Upcoming patch changes it to --nested-label, also because when using
> long options it is enough to use the first few letters of an option to
> choose one unequivocally, but when having both --label and --label-nested
> one can no longer do something like "--lab bsd". After the patch one can
> do that again, /and/ use "--nest bsd" too, which is short and very clear.
^^^^^^^^^^
The problem is that the original sfdisk version had "--nested" option,
the option is no more supported, but I'd like to avoid misinterpretation.
Anyway, you're right that --label-nested sounds strange.
Karel
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