Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think it > is better to leave them emitted unconditionally to the standard > error stream, in order to train users away from using the old option > that has its arguments wrong (the option does not take an argument > it should, and makes the command line to look as if it takes two > branch arguments in the wrong order).
I thought we already discussed that that is a side-issue? The option is a mode option for the command, like "-m", "-d", or "--edit-description". I genuinely don't think the order of options it takes is counter-intuitive. The second argument defaulting to HEAD and the behavior of creating the branch named by the first argument when it does not exist are quite counter-intuitive. Transitioning to a different argument order seems like it would just make the command more complicated. After the transition, there are two options to explain, and during the transition, it is easy to make scripts with gratuitous incompatibilities that won't work on older systems. Where is my thinking going wrong? Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
