Subject: Re: Minor inconsistency: "git tag" requires space after -m.

From: Sergei Organov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:03 +0400

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
>
>> It seems options parsing is somewhat broken in git-tag:
>> 
>> $ git tag -a -m"Annotated tag" annotated-tag
>> usage: git-tag [-n [<num>]] -l [<pattern>] | [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] [-f | -d | -v] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] <tagname> [<head>]
>> $ git tag -a -m "Annotated tag" annotated-tag
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.5.3.4
>> 
>> This is inconsistent with, say, "git commit", that groks -m"Message"
>> (without space after -m) just fine.
>
> As it happens, we are in the middle of adding our own option parser which 
> probably solves the issue.  Can you please retest when we have that, and 
> use it in builtin-tag?

I'm 100% sure there will be no inconsistencies once you unify options
parsing among the tools, but I won't refrain from re-testing this
anyway.

-- 
Sergei.