Thomas Gummerer <t.gumme...@gmail.com> writes:
> Agreed, I think --{no-,}overlay is a much better name for the option,
> I'll use that for my patch series (I hope to send that soon after 2.20
> is released).
OK.
> I must admit that I was not aware that the mode is called overlay
> mode, before you explained it to me, so I wouldn't expect most users
> to know either. But as it's easy to explain that probably doesn't
> matter much.
I do not think "the mode is called the overlay mode" is so accurate
a description. I think I've seen the word 'overlay' used to
describe the behaviour in earlier discussions, but because there is
no 'non-overlay' mode exists in versions of 'git checkout' the
end-users have, the users won't even be aware of the possibility
that mode different from what they are used to see could exist, or
that the mode that they are used to see could be called/explained as
the 'overlay' mode. IOW, we should pick the best phrase to explain
the behaviour we can use when coming up with the command line
option, and that phrase does not have to be 'overlay'---there is no
"using the word 'overlay' for this is good because the users are
familiar with the existing use of the word", simply because there
isn't such familiarilty ;-)
