Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >Teng Long <dyroneteng@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> ZheNing Hu mentioned me that could use "OPT_ALIAS" instead, it seems >> like could be better than OPT_BIT in this scenario. If so, are problems >> that may arise from interactions shielded? If not, I'm willing to add >> extra test about it (some relevant advice if possible). > >The intent of ALIAS is to just add an extra option visible at the UI >level that behaves exactly the same as the other one at the code >level, so the codepath that is prepared to deal with one can handle >the other one without any extra effort. In fact, after the option >parsing is finished, the rest of the code should not even be able to >tell which one, the original or the alias, was used on the command >line. > >And in this case, you'd want a new "push all branches" option that >behaves exactly like existing "--all", and possibly you may over >time want to deprecate the latter. All the code to ensure how >"--all" should interact with other options should be working fine >(or if there is a bug, that needs to be corrected whether we would >add this alias or not). Make sense. Thanks.
