Christopher Faylor writes: > I don't think any native English speaker would use "ephemeral" as a > switch name. I'll bet a significant number of native English speakers > don't even know what it means.
How many of those are compiling their own Cygwin packages? > And, I said "something like" not "you must use exactly what I said". I > don't want to get in naming wars but, again, if you want people to > actually know about and remember this option you need to use another > name. Fair enough. I've looked up all the synonyms to "ephemeral" and there is none that makes a good switch name, IMHO. But I think this impasse can be circumvented. The switch "ephemeral" gets renamed to "temporary" (short form "-t") and becomes a flag, like -s already is and does just alter the behaviour of rebase and not asking for a file list (which still needs to be given with "-T file list"). Incidentally that rather elegantly resolves one objection from Corinna that the files given on the command line were unaccounted for. The invocation would then be: rebase -stT file_list extra_file Does this look more reasonable to you all? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf Blofeld V1.15B11: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada