On Sat, 2026-06-27 at 00:29 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Benjamin Drung (2026-06-26 10:32:25) > > the man page of mmdebstrap talks about the --hook-directory parameter, but > > the examples uses --hook-dir. This is confusing. Do both variant work? > > from the man page: > > > Options are case insensitive. Short options may be bundled. Long options > > require a double dash and may be abbreviated to uniqueness. > > The last part means that --hook-d would also work and so would --ho but --h > would be ambiguous because there is --help. > > I think this detail is easy to miss and that the documentation of > --hook-directory could mention --hook-dir as an alternative popular > abbreviation.
Thanks for the explanation. I totally missed that part of the man page. Feel free to close this bug. Idea: After "Long options require a double dash and may be abbreviated to uniqueness." add --hook-dir as example for abbreviation to --hook- directory. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
