Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I do not see these two as valid arguments to make the command line >> more complex to the end users > > I don't think that it makes the command more complex to the end users. > >> ---who now need to know that only this >> command treats its command line in a funny way, accepting a colon in >> place of an equal sign. I meant that it makes learning the "command line syntax of Git" more complex to new users. If one is too narrowly focused on this single command, it may not seem that "the command" is not made more complex, but I am more interested in making sure that the entire Git command line experience does not get unnecessarily harder to learn. -- 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