On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:27:19AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > >> > I'm not fond of that, as it's vague about which exact trailers we're >> > talking about. I also thought of something like --verbatim, but I'd >> > worry that would seem to conflict with --normalize. >> > >> > I dunno. All of the names seem not quite descriptive enough to me. >> >> I meant 'exact' as in 'exactly from the patch/commit, no external >> influence such as config', so maybe '--from-patch' or '--from-commit' >> (which says the same as --no-config just the other way round. >> Having --no- in config options as the standard is a UX disaster >> IMHO as then we have to forbid the --no-no-X or reintroduce X >> and flip the default) > > Yes, that was definitely the other reason I didn't want to call it > "--no-config". :) > > It's not always from a patch or commit. The most accurate along those > lines is "--from-input". > >> Maybe --genuine ? > > But in the greater context I think that's vague again; we don't know > which part of the command's operation is "genuine". The input of course. ;) --genuine-input. > > Perhaps "--exact-input" hits all of those. Or maybe "--only-input" to > match the other "--only". > > I think I like that last one the best. It makes it clear that we are > looking just at the input, and not anything else. Which is exactly what > the feature does. Makes sense to me, Thanks, Stefan
