Re: cmd line stuff (was: CVS update: ...)

> Are you sure you'll never want to introduce a new global option?

Not sure at all.

> We could easily do what you suggest for the first version, but if we
> subsequently wanted to introduce new global options, we'd have to
> find letters for them that weren't used by any command anywhere, no?

And if there were no such letters, we'd have to make it a long option
with no short form.

I still think it's terrible that CVS options can mean totally
different things depending on whether they come before or after the
command, and I don't think we want to repeat that mistake.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006