Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Oct 22 2021, martin wrote: > [...] >> If 2 letters could be used, then -c could be given twice for "create copy" >> -c => create >> -c -c => create copy >> -cc => create copy Please, no! > Hrm, that's interesting. Yep, Git UI is too "interesting" already. > But probably better to have a long-option. Definitely. > Some short options (notable -v for --verbose) often work like that, > but I wonder if people wouldn't just be confused by it. I would be confused. Those options that do behave like that usually just increase (implicit) level of verbosity or debug level, so -vv is a way to say --verbose=2, and -vvv => --verbose=3. An option that changes its semantic depending on its sequence number is something that I'd avoid like a plague. Thanks, -- Sergey Organov
