RFC because this changes user interface (no option abbreviation), but I know no other good way to fix the --author problem. The --author option would be useful, because I usually use git svn log --oneline and paste the changes with svn revision numbers to bugzilla etc. All tests pass with this change. --------8<-------- From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:00:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: remove auto_abbrev (Getopt::Long option) auto_abbrev allows to specify shortest unique option prefix. For example '--authors-file' can be written also as '--author' given there is no other option which begins with '--author'. 'git-svn log' passes all unrecognized options to 'git log'. It should also pass '--author' but due to auto_abbrev it recognizes it as '--authors-file'. In result it's not possible to use this option. Fix this by removing auto_abbrev. No other perl script seems to use it, also other git commands seems to have no option abbreviation feature. The side effect is that you can not abbreviate options to git-svn, obviously. In fact only log and blame requires no option abbreviation, because only they use pass_through option (pass unrecognized options), but I think it would not be natural if some git-svn commands had options abbreviations and some didn't. Alternative would be to handle all conflicting blame/log options, but maintaing it would be a nightmare... Signed-off-by: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-svn.perl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 89f83fd..3e2e276 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ use File::Basename qw/dirname basename/; use File::Path qw/mkpath/; use File::Spec; use File::Find; -use Getopt::Long qw/:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev/; +use Getopt::Long qw/:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case/; use IPC::Open3; use Git; use Memoize; # core since 5.8.0, Jul 2002 -- 1.7.6.GIT -- Piotr Krukowiecki -- 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