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the most used options for properly written tools have both short single char option like -c and long-form version --config if you need verbose self-describing option.

If you are using cli tools of github written by a random person, then no wonder you will see non-standard approaches to UX.

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PowerShell takes an interesting approach in that it accepts any truncated variant of a long-form flag as a short form, provided it isn't ambiguous (i.e. if the interpreter can't decide which long-form flag to expand a short-form flag to.)

For example, if a command features a "-ConfigFile" flag, valid short-form variants include "-C", "-Co", "-Con", "-Conf", and so on. But if the command featured an additional flag "-ConfigURL" for example, the aforementioned short-form flags would be ambiguous.

getopt_long (and thus most GNU programs) work this way. I think it's probably a misfeature though since it means that adding a new option can introduce ambiguity. Having both short (ex. -x) and long (ex. --exclude) options is a less problematic solution.

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