Re: [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: Document short options in t/README
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:00:33
Ilya Bobyr [off-list ref] writes:
If there is decision on how shortening should work for all the options, maybe I could add a paragraph on that and make existing options more consistent.
We should strive to make the following from gitcli.txt apply throughout the system: * many commands allow a long option `--option` to be abbreviated only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option whose name begins with `opt`, you may be able to spell `--opt` to invoke the `--option` flag), but you should fully spell them out when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. `--optimize`, to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique.
If so, '--valgrind' becomes impossible to shorten because there is '--valgrind-only' that is a separate option. Same for '--verbose' and '--verbose-only'.
Correct. If you really cared, --valgrind={yes,no,only} would be (or
have been) a better possibility, though.