Joey Hess <joey@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Some option parsers avoid this sort of ambiguity by not allowing short > options that take a string to be bundled in the same word with other > short options. > > So, for example, git-commit -am<msg> would not be allowed, while > git-commit -a -m<msg> and perhaps git-commit -am <msg> would be allowed. > > There could still be problems if there were a --mend option that could > be typoed as -mend. > > I don't know enough about compatability to say if this would work for git. Yeah, I think that is quite a sensible workaround. - 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
