Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Completing single character options is rather useless in my mind. > The bash completion is always out of date with respect to the > actual set of supported options, and by definition they are a > single character. Hitting '-<tab><tab>' to identify the list of > supported options gives *no* detail about what the options do, > and I still have to enter the option letter to complete it. > > Completing `git am --w<tab>hitespace=s<tab>trip ` with just 6 > keystrokes on the other hand is very informative (whitespace, > strip!) and saves many keystrokes. That's why long options are > supported, for at least the more commonly accessed ones. It would be nice to have long option for each git command single character (short) option, for example --patch as long option to git-diff-tree -p option, etc. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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