retitle 11987 use of -h and -V tag notabug thanks On 07/19/2012 06:35 AM, Marcel Partap wrote: > ..more thoroughly supports the short options -h and -V for --help and > --version respectively.
GNU Coding Standards require '--help' and '--version', but do not require -h or -V (in fact, is -v or -V the more common abbreviation?). We'd rather not burn short option letters on these, since we risk collisions with future standardized uses of those short options for other reasons. > Or are there convincing arguments in favor of f.e. *date -h* telling > people to try harder asking for help? >> date: invalid option -- 'h' >> Try `date --help' for more information. Yes, there is a convincing argument - future POSIX may standardize 'date -h' to mean something else, and we don't want to get in the way of that potential addition. I'm going to close this bug out, but you can feel free to continue to add arguments if you think you can be convincing enough to change our minds. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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