On 2/21/2018 1:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:

Derrick Stolee <sto...@gmail.com> writes:

+int cmd_commit_graph(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
+{
+       static struct option builtin_commit_graph_options[] = {
+               { OPTION_STRING, 'p', "object-dir", &opts.obj_dir,
+                       N_("dir"),
+                       N_("The object directory to store the graph") },
I have a suspicion that this was modeled after some other built-in
that has a similar issue (perhaps written long time ago), but isn't
OPT_STRING() sufficient to define this element these days?

Or am I missing something?

You are not. There are several places in this history of this patch where I was using old patterns because I was using old code as my model (places like 'index-pack').

Why squat on short-and-sweet "-p"?  For that matter, since this is
not expected to be end-user facing command anyway, I suspect that we
do not want to allocate a single letter option from day one, which
paints ourselves into a corner from where we cannot escape.

I'll drop all single-letter shortcuts.

I suspect that exactly the same comment applies to patches in this
series that add other subcommands (I just saw one in the patch for
adding 'write').


Thanks,
-Stolee

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