"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ancestry_path:1, > + > + /* True if --ancestry-path was specified without an > + * argument. The bottom revisions are implicitly > + * the arguments in this case. > + */ > + ancestry_path_implicit_bottoms:1, The above comment explains why this is called "implicit" very well. The earlier round used "need", but the word missed the essense (i.e. ancestry_path argument is implicit and not given, so we need to compute bottoms and use them instead). The new name is certainly better.