Consistent use of -f/-d type option to specify subject of operation
Aaron Bentley
aaron at aaronbentley.com
Thu Dec 11 00:48:32 GMT 2008
Colin D Bennett wrote:
> Actually, after looking at the help for 'send', I noticed a
> -f/--from=ARG option that looks like it would allow making merge
> directives for remote branches. However, I have a hard time
> comprehending the distinction between -d/--directory=ARG (used by many
> commands) and -f/--from=ARG (used by 'send' and perhaps others). Is
> there a good reason that '-d' was abandoned for 'send'?
--directory doesn't seem like a good name for the option. If the
biggest need is for specifying URLs, we shouldn't use an option name
that implies a local path. So when I wrote `send`, I went with
something more accurate, after discussion with Martin.
Aaron
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