Re: changing the experimental 'git switch'

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Oct 22 2021, martin wrote:

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If 2 letters could be used, then -c could be given twice for "create copy"
-c  => create
-c -c  => create copy
-cc  => create copy

Please, no!

Hrm, that's interesting.

Yep, Git UI is too "interesting" already.

But probably better to have a long-option.

Definitely.

Some short options (notable -v for --verbose) often work like that,
but I wonder if people wouldn't just be confused by it.

I would be confused. Those options that do behave like that usually
just increase (implicit) level of verbosity or debug level, so -vv is a
way to say --verbose=2, and -vvv => --verbose=3.

An option that changes its semantic depending on its sequence number is
something that I'd avoid like a plague.

Thanks,
-- Sergey Organov