On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:54 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "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. Yep, I agree, but all credit for this improvement goes to Jonathan; this was one of many good suggestions in his careful review.