Re: possible usability issue in rebase -i?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Baz [off-list ref] wrote:

2009/10/28 Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref]:

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I'm not sure I follow - aren't dashless options, uhm, dashless? Do you
mean to use the long-form instead of the short-form? I'll assume
that's what you mean for now, since you changed "-i" to "--interactive
| -i".

No, I just meant 'git rebase' not 'git-rebase'. Sorry, I changed a
couple of things at once.

Ah, didn't notice that one. I completely agree with you on this.

tend to emit one-liners. As for calling out 'interactive', at the
other extreme its not clear to me why we mention '-i' separately from
'[options]' at all. rebase is already pretty inconsistent here, giving
short or long usage messages depending on whether you passed '-i'. But
I'll take comments on this when I submit the patch, I've no strong
feelings on it.

It's a simple reason why the output is different - this is the usage
for "git rebase -i" (hence it is in git-rebase--interactive.sh). I
guess this distinction would be slightly clearer if we removed the
brackets from the usage like this:

-git-rebase [-i] [whatever]
+git-rebase -i [whatever]


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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund