On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:14:45AM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:12:17 +0300: > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 23:52:10 +0200: > > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:37:44AM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > > How about adding 'svn cleanup --rm-I' as a short option for 'svn cleanup > > > > --remove-ignored'? > > > > > > > > Currently we have --cl as a short option for --changelist, and in the > > > > past we decided not to add --sca as a short option for > > > > --show-copies-as-adds. > > > > > > There wasn't just --sca. There was a huge list of aliases that > > > got removed again. See http://svn.apache.org/r1126808 log message > > > and discussion linked from there. > > > > > > I think that adding new entries to the short options list re-opens > > > that discussion. > > > > I don't think it does, because --sca (and the other options you refer > > to) are not self-evident, but --rm-I is relatively self-evident (at > > least the 'rm' part is). > > s/self-evident/self-explanatory/
If short options were self-evident we wouldn't have long option names in the first place and no discussion about adding short aliases.
