David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > Adam Roben <aroben@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Aug 19, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> + [-p|--paginate] [--no-pager] >> >> I think that [-p|--[no-]paginate] would be more consistent with the >> way negatable options are normally specified. > > Disregard previously existing code, I'd vote for using an option set > like the following: > > --pager > --pager=less > --pager=cat > --no-pager > > "--paginate" is rather artificial in contrast. ACK. I thought of naming the option --no-paginate, but I don't think that good english. --dont-paginate would be good english, but doesn't match the --[no-]whatever scheme. Perhaps using David's proposal, and keeping the --paginate as a backward compatibility, deprecated switch is the way to go. -- Matthieu - 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
