Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes: > I don't agree with POSIX on this point, and I don't see why git should > be bound to POSIX, especially at the UI level just because it's POSIX. Unfortunately, it does not matter in the real world that you and I both do not particularly like "head -n 4". We will see more people who feel "-n 4" more familiar than "-4", unlike old fashioned people like myself. > ... Heck, I've > been wanting GNU getopt_long() option parsing in git for a while... We find somebody who wants to do this every now and then, it seems. Last time somebody brought this up in late May 2005, we were still a "too rapidly moving" target, adding and changing options every other day, and the actual implementation went nowhere while the discussion was reasonably healthy. If I recall the discussion correctly, argp instead of GNU getopt was the list favorite back then... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jan 25 20:55:00 2006
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