[darcs-users] Naming consistency between darcs and other DVCSs

[Reinier Lamers]

Hi all,

On Monday 10 August 2009 18:47:56 Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:02:06AM -0400, Max Battcher wrote:
> > ``darcs repeal`` sounds silly to me, but I actually would be interested
> > in a better name for rollback, _if_ we can find one (and one that isn't
> > revert). I think rollback might be better used/more often used if it had
> > a more descriptive name that emphasized the idea of recording an inverse
> > of (part of) a patch. I don't have any good suggestions yet.
>
> How about 'darcs takeback' ?

That makes me think it is 'darcs obliterate': you take back a patch, act as if 
it never existed in the first place.

When you start discussing alternative names for commands you open pandoras 
box. Can't we just keep the names we're used to, with aliases where they don't 
cause confusion?

Reinier
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