On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:21:27AM -0000, julianf...@apache.org wrote: > Author: julianfoad > Date: Mon Oct 25 10:21:27 2010 > New Revision: 1027029 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1027029&view=rev > Log: > * subversion/svn/main.c > (svn_cl__options): Remove the alias '--nul' (for --no-unlock/--keep-lock), > in order to have at most one alias per option, and because I didn't > like its name.
For options which are being typed often during interactive use, I like having aliases that are at most 2 or 3 characters. The --no-unlock option is a bit special because it's also a double-negative which isn't intuitive. Note how the API uses "keep_lock", so the CLI client always passes "!no_unlock" to the API. IMO the option should always have been called --keep-lock. So in this case, I'd like to have both a short form for typing, and a --keep-lock alias. But I agree that "nul" isn't a good name. Maybe we should provide a short alias that sounds more like --keep-lock? Unfortunately --kl is already taken by --keep-local, which sounds very similar to --keep-lock. We should try to create short forms for both these options in a way that makes it easy to tell which is which. Maybe like this? --keep-local => --kal --keep-lock => --kck Stefan
