Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eric Wong <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Normally I would use "-D", but send-email (which normally passes options
> > to format-patch) interprets the "-D" as a case-insensitive abbreviation
> > for "--dry-run", preventing format-patch from seeing "-D".
> 
> Is this nonstandard option that is designed to produce an
> inapplicable patch so widely used to warrant a completion?
> 
> I'd actually understand it if this were to complete "git show" and
> friends, but not for format-patch.  I'd actually think we might be
> better off forbidding its use for the format-patch command (but not
> for other commands in the "git log" family), not just at the
> completion level but at the command line argument parser level.
> 
> Hmph...

I was actually hoping Paul would resurrect his work on getting apply
to understand --irreversible-delete:

http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
($gmane/202789)

I find this option useful to reduce mail traffic for others to review
changes which are already pushed to a public repo.

> > Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  Case-insensitivity strikes again! :<
> >  What a wacky default for Getopt::Long...  And it's probably too late
> >  for us to disable case-insensitivity in CLI parsing for send-email.
> >
> >  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash 
> > b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> > index 2fece98..41d8ff8 100644
> > --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> > +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> > @@ -1257,6 +1257,7 @@ __git_format_patch_options="
> >     --not --all --cover-letter --no-prefix --src-prefix= --dst-prefix=
> >     --inline --suffix= --ignore-if-in-upstream --subject-prefix=
> >     --output-directory --reroll-count --to= --quiet --notes
> > +   --irreversible-delete
> >  "
> >  
> >  _git_format_patch ()
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