On ven, d=C3=A9c 14, 2007 at 08:34:58 +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
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> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:59:52AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> 	git cmd --abbrev=3D10 -n=3D4
> >
> >   actually -n=3D4 isn't understood atm, only -n4 and -n 4 are.
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> Ah, my mistake.  And I do not think accepting -n=3D4 is a good idea (it is
> not historically done).

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> After thinking about it a bit more, I think I was worried too much about
> burdening the users to remember the differences between options with,
> without and optional option-arguments [*1*].  They need to know the
> difference between options with and without option-arguments already
> because single letter options can be combined if they are without
> option-arguments, and they have to write "shortlog -new72" but not
> "shortlog -wen72".  If they want to be extra sure, they can be more
> explicit and say "shortlog -n -e -w72".

  Yep, let's do it then. Note that's the reason why I felt we need a
manual page about this, because we should give some guidelines of what
is safe for scripting.

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=C2=B7O=C2=B7  Pierre Habouzit
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