On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:26:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> I am in principle OK with the later step that teaches a single > >> letter option to end-user facing "git am" that would be turned into > >> "--trailer" when it calls out to "interpret-trailers" (I haven't > >> checked if 't' is a sensible choice for that single letter option, > >> though). > > > > If 'am' has -t == --trailer, I think it makes sense to have the same > > shortcut in interpret-trailers for consistency. > > It is the other way around. "git am" may be OK with "-t" (or it may > not--I do not know yet), but other commands that are currently > unaware of "interpret-trailers" (cherry-pick, revert, etc.) may have > better uses for a short-and-sweet 't'. > > In the ideal future, "interpret-trailers" should not have to exist > in the end-users' vocabulary, as all the front-line end-user facing > programs would be aware of it. But we are not there. > > Letting it reserve a short-and-sweet 't' that allows it to dictate > that its callers must have the same 't' is tail wagging the dog that > I want to avoid. It's mostly a short-cut I took by copying calls to applypatch. Are there examples of other commands doing such transformations on the fly? -- MST -- 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