On Jul 4 20:13, Achim Gratz wrote: > 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?
Not speaking for all, just for me, I like the idea to make the switch a simple switch without argument. The only problem is that the -t option is already in use. What about -O/--oblivious? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
