From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Cc: tr@thomasrast.ch, mhagger@alum.mit.edu, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a script to generate a (long/short) options overview
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:45:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131031234514.GC41460@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5272E316.5090108@googlemail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:09:10AM +0100, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On 11/01/2013 12:04 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > Recently a discussion started on the mailing list, which short option
> > shall be best for a long option. (-f being always --force and therefore
> > should not be reassigned another meaning in one particular command)
> > See http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg38456.html
> >
> > For discussions as these we need a script to easily generate an
> > overview of all available one letter options, and their long option
> > equivalents.
> >
> > As the list of options was not retrieved fully automated,
> > there might be minor errors or missing items.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/generateShortOptions.py | 460 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 460 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/generateShortOptions.py
> >
>
> When trying to send a follow-up patch with the table itself, I got:
> fatal: /tmp/wHpJlnf1r5/0002-Documentation-add-table-viewing-short-long-options-f.patch: 19: patch contains a line longer than 998 characters
> warning: no patches were sent
>
> Is this an artifical limitation or something that actually makes sense?
RFC 5321 forbids lines exceeding 1000 octets (including CRLF). RFC 5322
forbids lines exceeding 998 characters (excluding CRLF). If you want to
get around that, you need to base64-encode the content, which is
generally discouraged when sending patches, I believe.
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2013-10-27 1:34 ` [PATCH] commit: Add -f, --fixes <commit> option to add Fixes: line Josh Triplett
2013-10-27 5:42 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-27 6:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-27 7:14 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-27 8:03 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Michel Lespinasse
2013-10-27 9:23 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-27 8:09 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-27 9:20 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-27 10:59 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-27 19:10 ` Christian Couder
2013-10-28 2:46 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-28 22:10 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 2:02 ` Jeff King
2013-10-30 17:53 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-29 6:23 ` Christian Couder
2013-10-30 19:07 ` Johan Herland
2013-11-02 12:54 ` Christian Couder
2013-10-27 9:26 ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-27 16:30 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-27 17:03 ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-31 23:03 ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-31 23:04 ` [PATCH] Documentation: add a script to generate a (long/short) options overview Stefan Beller
2013-10-31 23:09 ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-31 23:45 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2013-11-01 0:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 9:02 ` [PATCH] commit: Add -f, --fixes <commit> option to add Fixes: line Michael Haggerty
2013-10-28 11:29 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-29 2:08 ` Jeff King
2013-10-29 8:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-10-30 18:12 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-31 6:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-31 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 23:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-11-01 0:16 ` Johan Herland
2013-10-27 8:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-27 9:13 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-28 0:49 ` Jim Hill
2013-10-28 1:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 7:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-28 8:27 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-10-28 8:59 ` [ksummit-attendees] " Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-28 23:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-28 23:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-28 23:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-28 9:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-29 4:45 ` Christian Couder
2013-10-29 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 17:28 ` Tony Luck
2013-10-30 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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