Re: svn commit: rev 966 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline

sussman@tigris.org writes:
> Log:
> 3. Create short form of --force (-f), which didn't exist. (?!)
>
> [Still pending: rewriting the subcommand alias system]
>
> * main.c (subcommand_takes_option): validation helper function.
>
> (main): use the function to validate all options passed to
> subcommands. Look for 'f' short form of --force.

Actually, I think that was intentional. We were reserving "-f" for
something that's used more often than "--force". Don't know exactly
what yet, but the point is that the single-letter option space is
pretty tight, so we want to be conservative about using it up.

IMHO, we should have only a long option for --force. It's rarely
used, and -f is likely to come in handy someday. Anyone object if I
change this back?

-Karl

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006