Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Use --find- instead of --detect- as prefix for long forms of -M and -C.

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:24:57 +0100

Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> > Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > Rationale: this is both shorter to spell and consistent with
> > > --find-copies-harder.
> > [...]
> > >  -M[<n>]::
> > > ---detect-renames[=<n>]::
> > > +--find-renames[=<n>]::
> > 
> > Umm.  The reasoning seems ok for me, but the farthest you can go is
> > deprecating the options.  Removing them as in
> > 
> > > -	else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--detect-renames=") ||
> > > -		 !strcmp(arg, "--detect-renames")) {
> > > +	else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-M") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--find-renames=") ||
> > > +		 !strcmp(arg, "--find-renames")) {
> > 
> > would break backwards compatibility.
> 
> I don't think we care with compatibility here, since those are not
> part of any release.

Ah well.  You're right of course, but you could have mentioned that
somewhere :-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
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