Hi folks,

"--numeric-ids" is a lot of text and easy to be forgotten or
misspelled.

Since it is a highly important option for making backups of
remote systems via rsync I wonder if "-N" could be introduced
as an abbreviation for "--numeric-ids"? "-N" is not in use yet,
afaics.

Just a suggestion, of course. Keep on your good work.

Regards
Harri
--- rsync-3.1.2/options.c~	2015-12-18 23:46:28.000000000 +0100
+++ rsync-3.1.2/options.c	2016-11-18 08:34:03.855664744 +0100
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@
   {"protect-args",    's', POPT_ARG_VAL,    &protect_args, 1, 0, 0},
   {"no-protect-args",  0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &protect_args, 0, 0, 0},
   {"no-s",             0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &protect_args, 0, 0, 0},
-  {"numeric-ids",      0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &numeric_ids, 1, 0, 0 },
+  {"numeric-ids",     'N', POPT_ARG_VAL,    &numeric_ids, 1, 0, 0 },
   {"no-numeric-ids",   0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &numeric_ids, 0, 0, 0 },
   {"usermap",          0,  POPT_ARG_STRING, 0, OPT_USERMAP, 0, 0 },
   {"groupmap",         0,  POPT_ARG_STRING, 0, OPT_GROUPMAP, 0, 0 },
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