On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:42:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > You forgot one case. > > 4. Everybody who does _not_ know that we traditionally did not > support the form would expect "--abbrev 10" and "-n 4" to work. I would expect "-n 4" to work, but not "--abbrev 10". But perhaps that is just me. If that is the expectation, I think the behavior you outlined is sensible. -Peff - 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