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From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] revision: Add --sticky-default option
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:53:41PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 11:12, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:24:38PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > here's a long-overdue update of my proposal from August 29:
> > >
> > >   [RFC] revision: Don't let ^<rev> cancel out the default <rev>
> > >
> > > Does this look more acceptable that my first shot?
> >
> > I think it's going in the right direction.
> >
> > The name "--sticky-default" did not immediately make clear to me what it
> > does. Is there some name that would be more obvious?
> 
> It's the best I could think of. Better ideas, anyone?

I'd probably call it something verbose and boring like
--use-default-with-uninteresting or --default-on-negative.
I dunno.

-Peff