On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Stephan Beyer <s-be...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/07/2016 09:04 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Stephan Beyer <s-be...@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> [1] By the way: git cherry-pick --quit, git rebase --forget ...
>>> different wording for the same thing makes things unintuitive.
>>
>> It is not too late to STOP "--forget" from getting added to "rebase"
>> and give it a better name.

Sorry I didn't know about --quit (and it has been there since 2011, I
guess I'm just not big sequencer user).

> Oh. ;) I am not sure. I personally think that --forget is a better name

Yeah, I was stuck with the name --destroy for many months and was very
happy the day I found --forget, which does not imply any destructive
side effects and is distinct enough from --abort to not confuse
people.

> than --quit because when I hear --quit I tend to look into the manual
> page first to check if there are weird side effects (and then the manual
> page says that it "forgets" ;D).
> So I'd rather favor adding --forget to cherry-pick/revert instead... or
> this:
-- 
Duy

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