[PATCH] Commit and log commands: strings encodings

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Fri Dec 2 19:37:40 GMT 2005


John A Meinel пишет:
> Sure, but o and i are very commonly used for --input, --output, etc.
> Meaning redirect the output to a file.
> 
> And while we aren't using them now, I think it would be good to have
> them available in the future.
> 
> I'm not stating absolutes here. I just know that in general, short
> options are reserved until we find that an option is being supplied all
> the time (like --revision and --message).
> 
> Perhaps we could have --input-encoding --output-encoding, and then a
> shortcut for the most common --utf8.
> 
> Just some ideas. Martin is the ultimate authority on whether
> short-options make it in.

I'll be happy if you merge my patch even without short options (-i/-o).
Because for me is very important influence of this options on text
processing rather than options naming.

Simply exclude these lines from the end of patch #27:

_global_short('i', 'input-encoding')
_global_short('o', 'output-encoding')


Alexander





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