> On Jul 19, 2017, at 09:11, Yuya Nishihara <y...@tcha.org> wrote: > >>> I prefer not doing mass renaming that would generate lots of "deprecated" >>> config names in use around user hgrc and web documents. But if I had to >>> choose one, I would vote for dashes/hyphens. >> >> We could also do what gmail does with email addresses and periods: >> they allow extra periods anywhere (I think). So allowpull and >> allow-pull and all-owpull would be all be the same config option. Just >> a thought; I'm not sure what I think. > > I'm not a fan of ambiguating identifiers. It smells like case-insensitive fs, > computer language, etc. that do sometimes surprising.
Agreed. I had previously proposed exactly this, but in the intervening years I've come to agree with Yuya that it's likely to be more confusing than anything in the long run. _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
