On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:28:26PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:

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I think he inherited the "--sources" name from me. :) I agree it could
be better. I think "--show-filename" is not right as there are
non-filename cases.  Just "--origin" sounds funny to me, perhaps because
of git's normal use of the word "origin".

I like "--show-origin" the best of the ones suggested.

I understand your reasoning and I agree that "--show-origin" is better than
"--sources". However, I think just the word "origin" could be misleading in 
this context because people associate it with Git remotes. How about
"--show-config-origin" then? Or would that be too verbose?

I think "-config" is redundant here, as we are running "git config". We
have "--add" and not "--add-config", after all.

I dunno. TBH, I do not find --sources to be all that bad. I suspect we
could nitpick any name, and at least it is short and unique.

-Peff