Re: [RFC/WIP PATCH 05/11] transport: add infrastructure to support a protocol version number

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 03:01:09PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> +	OPT_STRING('y', "transport-version", &transport_version,
>> +		   N_("transport-version"),
>> +		   N_("specify transport version to be used")),
>
> Interesting choice for the short option ("-v" would be nice, but
> obviously it is taken). Do we want to delay on claiming the
> short-and-sweet 'y' until we are sure this is something people will use
> a lot? In an ideal world, it is not (i.e., auto-upgrade and other tricks
> become good enough that nobody bothers to specify it manually).

Yes, just stuff 0 (not NULL but NUL) there; unless we have a very
good reason to believe that the option will be used every day to
toggle per invocation settings, we shouldn't squat on a short and
sweet single letter.
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