On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 02:25:13PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: [..] > Do you or anyone have a suggestion for a better CLI option name? > > Maybe --pickaxe-patch or --pickaxe-patch-format (to go with git-diff's > -u aka --patch (i.e. not --raw) default format)? Or > --pickaxe-G-with-context or --pickaxe-with-context or > --with-pickaxe-context or --pickaxe-context ? All of these suck, but I'm > coming up blank on a better one :)
'--pickaxe-patch' is shorter than '--pickaxe-raw-diff', hence more convenient to me. It looks like 'pickaxe-all' and 'pickaxe-regex' are the only --pickaxe-* options currently implemented. Both of them are two-worded only and easy to remember/type. I think '--pickaxe-patch' is more user-friendly, but I leave git people to say the final word. > > Probably the least shitty of those shitty options is --pickaxe-patch, > since we have --patch which triggers the same format, and we can > document that the default is a -G search through --no-pickaxe-patch, and > you can just tweak the format. > > It also leaves the door open (unlike having *-G-* in the option) to > support this for -S if anyone cared... -- Best Regards, Eugeniu.
