Am 03.06.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I know not everybody will the "natural thing" I claim, and if it were >> easy to support everywhere, I don't mind doing it. But I suspect >> (without thinking very hard on it) that it would make those case >> statements a bit harder to read and maintain. > > Oh, I agree with that 100%. I didn't mean to suggest (let alone to > demand) to support the possible truncations. > > I simply was hoping that Thomas would respond with your "For a user > who uses tab completion, it is natural to use --unt<TAB> so by the > time we use find-on-command-line, we can expect the fully-spelled > form" when I asked about "--unt=no"; that would give us a warm and > fuzzy confirmation that the patch author has thought things through > when designing the new feature. I understood from Junio's comment [1] > $ git status -uno <TAB> that the question was about the short option version not about how possible truncations are handled. On the other side I must confess I did not think about the possibility that the user truncates a long option as in --unt=all. Looking through the completion file I have not found a place where the truncated versions are supported. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/296220 -- 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