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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail•com>
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1•demon.co.uk>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:35:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd2h7fvkw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5333F1E6.5060009@gmail.com> (Ilya Bobyr's message of "Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:39:50 -0700")

Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail•com> writes:

> If there is decision on how shortening should work for all the
> options, maybe I could add a paragraph on that and make existing
> options more consistent.

We should strive to make the following from gitcli.txt apply
throughout the system:

 * many commands allow a long option `--option` to be abbreviated
   only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option
   whose name begins with `opt`, you may be able to spell `--opt` to
   invoke the `--option` flag), but you should fully spell them out
   when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a
   new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. `--optimize`,
   to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique.

> If so, '--valgrind' becomes impossible to shorten because there
> is '--valgrind-only' that is a separate option.  Same for
> '--verbose'  and '--verbose-only'.

Correct.  If you really cared, --valgrind={yes,no,only} would be (or
have been) a better possibility, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24  8:49 [RFC/PATCH] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24 11:39   ` Ramsay Jones
2014-03-24 17:19     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-25 17:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27  9:39         ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 16:35           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-28 17:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-25  5:52   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: tests skipped by GIT_SKIP_TESTS say so Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24  8:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-24 23:03 ` [RFC/PATCH] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Jeff King
2014-03-25  4:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 10:15     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32 ` [RFC/PATCH v2] " Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: tests skipped by GIT_SKIP_TESTS say so Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-27 10:32   ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: '--run' to run only specific tests Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-28  3:36     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-28  7:05       ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-03-30  9:41         ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-31 17:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 19:35             ` David Tran
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-22  8:19 [RFC/PATCH v3] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-22  8:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-23 18:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30  9:38     ` Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-30  9:50 ` [RFC/PATCH v4] Better control of the tests run by a test suite Ilya Bobyr
2014-04-30  9:50   ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README Ilya Bobyr

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