Re: [PATCH 3/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:27:19AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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I'm not fond of that, as it's vague about which exact trailers we're
talking about. I also thought of something like --verbatim, but I'd
worry that would seem to conflict with --normalize.

I dunno. All of the names seem not quite descriptive enough to me.

I meant 'exact' as in 'exactly from the patch/commit, no external
influence such as config', so maybe '--from-patch' or '--from-commit'
(which says the same as --no-config just the other way round.
Having --no- in config options as the standard is a UX disaster
IMHO as then we have to forbid the --no-no-X or reintroduce X
and flip the default)

Yes, that was definitely the other reason I didn't want to call it
"--no-config".  :)

It's not always from a patch or commit. The most accurate along those
lines is "--from-input". 

Maybe --genuine ?

But in the greater context I think that's vague again; we don't know
which part of the command's operation is "genuine".

Perhaps "--exact-input" hits all of those. Or maybe "--only-input" to
match the other "--only".

I think I like that last one the best. It makes it clear that we are
looking just at the input, and not anything else. Which is exactly what
the feature does.

-Peff