On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:16:38AM +0000, Matthew Rogers via GitGitGadget wrote:
> - OPT_BOOL('z', "null", &end_null, N_("terminate values with NUL byte")),
> + OPT_BOOL('z', "null", &end_nul, N_("terminate values with NUL byte")),
The user-facing option is still spelled "null". Obviously we can't just
change that, but if we are trying to prefer "nul", should we offer both?
I think we actually _do_ allow "--nul" because of parse-option's
willingness to accept a partial name. But if we wanted to advertise one
over the other in "-h", then we'd have to set up the alias ourselves.
Interestingly, "xargs" (and GNU grep) spells it as "--null", so perhaps
that's an argument to keep it as-is. Likewise if we accept that "null
termination" is a correct name, I suppose.
-Peff
