Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm striving for backwards compatibility with existing usage. That > means as a diff option, -C alone works, as does -C20. I've made -C 20 > _not_ work because it breaks existing usage (where 20 could be a > filename, or a tree-ish). -C=20 would mean something > else, I think optional arguments are still confusing. We could support both -C (no args) and -C=20 syntax. > since I wanted to make pickaxe work exactly as it did before: > -S=var would search for '=var', not 'var'. Some other options use -x=y syntax so this would be confusing. Pickaxe's -Stext syntax is a bit strange. I think -S text or -S=text would be more logical. -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/ - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html