Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply >> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git >> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar). > > Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but I > felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give much > more value, I think it does: I understand --work as "the verb to work", so "git reset --work" sounds like "tell 'git reset' to work", while "git reset --work-tree" sounds like "tell git to reset the work tree". > except more characters to type =/ Then, we can have --work-tree and a short version -w. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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