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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cat-file: add short option '-c' for 'cat-file --textconv'
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:48:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoaq7bmfp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420793279-27853-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com> (Alexander Kuleshov's message of "Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:47:59 +0600")

Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail•com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail•com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  5 +++--
>  builtin/cat-file.c             |  4 ++--
>  t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh   | 10 ++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> index f6a16f4..b346a5d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objec
>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
>  [verse]
> -'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object>
> +'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type> | (-c | --textconv) ) <object>

Do we use "-c" for a shorthand for "--textconv" anywhere else?

Is there any other command that has "--textconv" where "-c" does not
mean "--textconv"?  Or worse yet, where "-c" already means something
completely different from "--textconv"?

Unlike end-user facing Porcelain commands, plumbing commands are
primarily meant to be used in scripts, and I am not sure how much
benefit we are getting by introducing new short options to them.

Ancient plumbing commands do have many single-letter options but
they were added back when more modern set of end-user facing
Porcelain commands did not exist.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09  8:47 [PATCH] cat-file: add short option '-c' for 'cat-file --textconv' Alexander Kuleshov
2015-01-09 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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