[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc: add missing hyphen prefix

Hendrik Leppkes h.leppkes at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 13:43:36 EET 2019


On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:29 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
>
> Lou Logan (12019-02-21):
> > For consistency. Fixes #7740.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
>
> I do not think this is correct: the dash is not part of the option name,
> it is part of the Unix command-line tradition. For consistency, it
> should be removed when it is there, possibly replaced by the word
> "option" if necessary.
>

I agree. You don't pass the dash when yo use avoptions through API,
for example, so this would only add to the confusion.

- Hendrik


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