On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:37:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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?
FWIW, obvilivious makes more sense to me. cgf
