On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Anatoly Borodin wrote: > is there a good reason why > > git fetch -vpnf > > works like > > git fetch -v -p -n -f > > and > > git commit -avem msg > > works like > > git commit -a -v -e -m msg > > etc etc, but > > git log -wWp > > says > > fatal: unrecognized argument: -wWp Yes. The reason is that the arguments to git-log are passed to the revision.c parser, which predates our parse_options() infrastructure, and does not understand bundled options. It could be updated to use parse_options(), but nobody has done so yet. -Peff