From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: add '--sources' option to print the source of a config value Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:03:33 +0000 Message-ID: <56BB5F55.9040404@ramsayjones.plus.com> References: <1455099198-11515-1-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com> <56BB3157.7080307@ramsayjones.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: larsxschneider@gmail.com, Git Mailing List , Jeff King To: Sebastian Schuberth X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 10 17:03:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTXEz-0005Fl-VN for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:03:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752224AbcBJQDi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:03:38 -0500 Received: from avasout07.plus.net ([84.93.230.235]:43204 "EHLO avasout07.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751538AbcBJQDh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:03:37 -0500 Received: from [10.0.2.15] ([46.208.159.221]) by avasout07 with smtp id Gg3a1s0054mu3xa01g3bga; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:03:35 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=QqujpgGd c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Sp5fw55EgyGSOjouSGNDoQ==:117 a=Sp5fw55EgyGSOjouSGNDoQ==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=Ki35LypJW00xBySNttAA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-AUTH: ramsayjones@:2500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/02/16 15:28, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Ramsay Jones > wrote: > >>> Sebastian suggested "--show-origin" as a better option name over "--sources". >>> I still believe "--sources" might be slightly better as I fear that users could >>> somehow related "origin" to "remote" kind of configs. However, I am happy to >>> change that if a majority prefers "--show-origin". >> >> >> As I have said before, I'm not very good at naming things, but ... >> >> Of the two, I *slightly* prefer --show-origin, since I don't think >> there will be any confusion. However, I think --source may be OK too >> (for some reason it sounds better than the plural). Another idea >> may be --show-source. ;-) >> >> > > I agree that using --source sounds better than --sources, as the > latter sounds even more like "source code". > > Here's another idea: How about --declaration or --show-declaration? > Hmm, I think its more like a definition! :-D [Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I promise not to say any more on this. ;-) ] ATB, Ramsay Jones