I was testing out the fix/workaround for [[git-annex directory hashing problems on osx]] and I tried using the short forms of some of the commands i.e.

    git annex copy -f externalusb .

which gives me

    git-annex: user error (option `-f' is ambiguous; could be one of:
      -f         --force        allow actions that may lose annexed data
      -f REMOTE  --from=REMOTE  specify from where to transfer content


I would have expected that since *--to* is the same as *-t* and *--from* is the same as *-f* as the in program documentation suggests. But *-f* clashes with the force command, I would suggest that the short form of *--force* be changed to *-F* and possibly rename the *Fast* commands to *Quick* and use *-Q* as the short form of the *Quick* operations. I didn't try the *-f* option with the move command, but it probably suffers from the same issue. It's probably better to avoid clashing short forms of command options.

I guess this issue is just a documentation issue and a minor interface change if needed and not a bug of git-annex, but a quirk.

> Yeah, -f needs to be from; -F was already --fast. I have made --force not
> have any short option abbreviation, I think it's entirely reasonable to
> avoid fat-fingering an option that can lose data. [[done]] --[[Joey]]