Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:05:48PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > IMHO md5sum and sha*sum are too verbose by default, especially when >> > checking a large collection of files with only a few failing validation. >> > Therefore I'd like to see an option added to suppress just the output >> > for successfully verified files. >> > >> > The attached patch does that by adding the option --quiet/-q, including >> > documentation and a testcase. >> >> Thank you for a fine patch. >> That looks very good. >> The only suggestion I can make so far is to omit the short-named "-q" option. >> The "--q" abbreviation of --quiet is only one byte longer. > > The short "-q" is commonly used for "--quiet", I would expect it's > existence for every progam having short option names and this kind of > functionality. > > If you insist on omitting it I'll remove it from the next version of the > patch, but I'd prefer it with "-q".
Sorry, but I do insist. It's not an arbitrary decision, and I'm not picking on you in particular. Everyone who proposes to add short-named options to existing programs gets the same answer. This is a hard and fast policy in coreutils: No new short options, unless you somehow manage to prove that it won't ever conflict with some other vendor's -q option. And even then, I'd probably reject it, unless it's somehow standardized. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
