[darcs-users] short options and long names (VOTE!)

Ketil Malde ketil at ii.uib.no
Wed Jun 2 19:16:21 UTC 2004


Andrew Pimlott <andrew at pimlott.net> writes:

>>      --match=PATTERN           patch-matching pattern
>>   -m PATCHNAME  --patch-name=PATCHNAME  name of patch

[...]

> I think -p should end up getting used for patch naming or selection
> somehow.  -m makes no sense in record.

I always thought of it as being short for "message".  That's how it is
in CVS and Subversion, where it has more or less the same
functionality for 'commit' as for 'record' in darcs.

My vote is to keep it, with compatibility as the justification.

-kzm
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