Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Isn't that obvious? -X looks like a short option, but the rest of that > string does not consist of aggregated short options. Ah, I see. Then the issue is not about "not easy to code" but about "not being consistent". We should care much more deeply about the latter. We can change it to "--X<option>[=<value>]" and "-X option[=<value>]"; the topic is still young, not even documented properly IIRC, and is not scheduled for 'master' any time soon yet. -- 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