Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> +int cmd_commit_graph(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> +{ >> + static struct option builtin_commit_graph_options[] = { >> + { OPTION_STRING, 'p', "object-dir", &opts.obj_dir, >> + N_("dir"), >> + N_("The object directory to store the graph") }, > > I have a suspicion that this was modeled after some other built-in > that has a similar issue (perhaps written long time ago), but isn't > OPT_STRING() sufficient to define this element these days? > > Or am I missing something? > > Why squat on short-and-sweet "-p"? For that matter, since this is > not expected to be end-user facing command anyway, I suspect that we > do not want to allocate a single letter option from day one, which > paints ourselves into a corner from where we cannot escape. I suspect that exactly the same comment applies to patches in this series that add other subcommands (I just saw one in the patch for adding 'write').