[darcs-users] Re: argh. please change the name "unpull"

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Thu Mar 17 22:17:06 UTC 2005


On 2005-03-17, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
> I certainly believe we should optimise for the finding of the right command=
>=20
> first.  And UnPull being the opposite of Pull in actual usage makes me feel=
>=20
> it really is the best name.  Erase is not what I would pick from a list of=
>=20
> items if I wanted to undo a pull action.

But 'pull' is a copy. So how is a copy undone? It's not 'uncopied',   
The second copy is discarded.  

Realize that 'unpull' is also used for:

 - removing patches that have never left the repo, but were recorded with 'record'
 - patches that have been applied manually with 'apply'.
 - patches that have been been applied automatically through an e-mail system.
 
In all cases the patch is applied with 'apply' at some point, which is
why  I think I'm leaving my vote on 'unapply'.

    Mark





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