On 15 Jul 2009, at 10:34, Ashley Moran wrote:
Hi all
I just re-stumbled across the darcs Rosetta Stone[1]. What I hadn't
noticed before was the section "Recommendations for unification":
• rename get to clone
• rename changes to log
• rename record to commit (DVCS are popular enough now)
• rename rollback to new "repeal"
These changes sound sensible to me. (Plus `darcs uncommit`?) Is
there an active effort to make darcs more consistent with other
DVCSes? Regardless of which came first, git terminology is becoming
ubiquitous. After showing an existing git user darcs, and noticing
his surprise at `darcs annotate -p`, I think there may be a strong
case for a language reform.
WDYAT?
I find commit and log worse names than record and changes. I also
consider them to be remnants of the old ages. Everybody copied them
over from CVS, so they become widespread, however that doesn't make
them necessarily better.
Repeal not only sounds odd, but I find it much less suggestive than
rollback.
Also an important point to consider is that is't much worse to
alienate the whole darcs user base, just to make some potential
newcomers (or people using other version control systems) more
comfortable.
--
Dan
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