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Re: [Patch] Rebase: new switch --ephemeral


On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:41:03AM +0200, ASSI wrote:
>On Monday 02 July 2012, 11:49:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm not paying close attention but I have to say that I really don't
>>like the name "ephemeral" for a switch.  Couldn't it be named more
>>precisely to indicate what it is doing like --no-update-db or something
>>like that?
>
>I'm not convinced this name is any better (what would you suggest as
>the short mnemonic for that, -N?), but then I'm not a native speaker of
>English...

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.

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.

cgf


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