On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:41:36AM -0700, Joe Green wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Martin wrote: > >> > >>Or, since it's contradictory with the existance of --backup, maybe > >>--remove, ie the long option only. > >> > >>After all, we can live with long options only, thanks to the completion ;) > >> > >> > > > >I don't think so. Not everyone uses bash completion or zsh. Thois option > >is likely to be typed often, as I can easily imagine that some users > >will want to use it for some of their patches and not the other ones (so > >it can't be set in QUILT_DELETE_OPTIONS). As quilt does seem to offer > >only one name (either long or short) for each option, I'd go with -r. > > > > > I agree. I seriously considered calling it "--remove" but decided on > "-r" for similar reasons. I think "--backup" is more likely to be set > globally from QUILTRC, using either QUILT_DELETE_ARGS or QUILT_BACKUP. > > The latter is the reason why "--backup" requires "-r" rather than being > an alternative to it. I didn't want to introduce a silent change in the > behavior of delete for people who are already using QUILT_BACKUP. This > is also why "--backup" is silently ignored if "-r" is missing rather > than generating a usage error.
Fine with me, then. I take it back. Mt.
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