[PATCH 0 of 2] mq: rename strip --nobackup option to --no-backup (issue2377)
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Tue Sep 14 15:37:06 CDT 2010
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 22:16 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches address feature request 2377 and deprecate
> hg strip --nobackup in favour of hg strip --no-backup, long
> option name analogous to hg revert --no-backup.
>
> Although revert has no corresponding short option and does not
> exactly the same thing (but at least something similar), I deem
> the sort of fake consistency better for practical reasons: the
> user is less prone to mistype the option he is used to from the
> core command.
>
> For this option name change it was necessary to use
> opts.get('no-backup') instead of opts['no-backup'] to avoid a
> KeyError. The first patch prepares for this by consistently using
> opts.get() which is supposed to be better practice anyway. Unless
> we decide that this is too radical and special rules apply for mq
> (speed?).
Queued, thanks.
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