On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:40:31PM -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Can you point to an example of a git command supporting --dry-run, and > using -n for something else? I personally would find that confusing, > since -n is a common alias for dry-run both inside and outside of git > (c.f. make, rsync, libtool). I guess patch(1) has that property, but > none of your examples from git use -n to mean something else. Oops, I missed 'commit' in your list, which I see (as of recently) has that property. In that case, though, --dry-run was added after an established -n option had been there for a long time; I think my general argument still stands for commands where that is not the case. - Nelson -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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