[darcs-users] Why -m for patch name?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Just wondering why "m" was used as the short option for "patch-name".  
>> I have been using this option lately and keep mistyping it as "darcs  
>> rec -a -p 'the patch name'", which is obviously bogus, but makes more  
>> sense to me in this context....

> maybe because other vcs used -m for commit as well. (at least cvs, svn,
> git.)

IIUC the idea was that this option was used to give a "commit
*M*essage".


        Stefan