On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:54:47AM +0000, Deepak Singh wrote:
> The list of options is very extensive and I was not able to find any suitable
> option for this.
>
> Currently used '!' as the option with long name as 'no_clobber'.

We don't necessarily even need a short option. They are precious commodities,
and if noone has needed this option after 16 years, it's probably not going to
be popular enough to deserve one.

> I can not use "no-clobber" because "no-option" is used for disabling the
> boolean options.

Why not create a "clobber" option that is true by default? Then --no-clobber
will work fine and as expected.

>>> Dan
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Received on 2014-05-27