Re: [PATCH 2/2] swapon: rename the new --annotation option to --annotate
Christian Albrecht Goeschel Ndjomouo <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Oct 2025 02:02:55 +0000
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> The form --annotation gave the impression that after the subsequent > "=" comes the text that each column name should be annotated with. > Furthermore, the other two options with optional arguments (--show > and --discard) are in the imperative, so follow that style and use > --annotate instead. I prefer this name, it is more intuitive. FYI, I added your patches to my pull request* on Github and for completeness I renamed man-common/annotation.adoc to annotate.adoc and adapted the name of some variables for clarity. * https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3782/ Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo B.Sc. Software Engineering Western Governors University