I was not around when this change was made but I think we should have kept the old - dash version. We should consider adding it back.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com>wrote: > Xuefu just fixed the AdminManual Configuration > wiki< > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration > >, > changing bin/hive -hiveconf ... to --hiveconf, so I grepped the wiki > archive and found many more cases of single-dash hiveconf than double-dash: > > > grep -i '\-\-hiveconf' * | wc > 2 16 178 > > grep -i '\-hiveconf' * | wc > 24 282 4054 > > A bit of googling also showed both versions of the option. So two > questions: > > > 1. Should I change all cases of single-dash hiveconf to double-dash in > the wiki? > 2. Should a single-dash option be created to accommodate all the wrong > information on the Internet and in books (including *Hadoop: The > Definitive Guide* and chapters 9 & 12 of *Programming Hive*)? > > > -- Lefty >
