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Re: Another VC terminology change?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Another VC terminology change? |
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Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:08:27 -0400 |
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>> Not about "checkout" which sometimes means "update" and sometimes "get".
^^^
sure [sorry 'bout that]
>> But yes, "checkin" should be replaced by "commit".
>> This said, I don't know if we should change it only in the doc, or also in
>> the code, especially in the part of the code that interacts with the user
>> (i.e. commands) or the backends: I think it's important to make sure that
>> a single backend can work both with the new and the old VC.
> That compatibility is gone beyond retrieval. It was already doomed when
> I moved the backends to taking fileset args,
It worked fine back then. The backends just had to be careful to accept
both a list or a string and to treat a string as a list of 1 element.
> and I added another layer of impossible with the version -> revision
> terminology change.
We can (and maybe should) provide backward compatibility aliases to
handle that.
> So if we're going to do this change at all, it might as well be in docs and
> code both. Maintaining consistency will save us problems later.
OK. As said, we can (and maybe should) provide backward
compatibility aliases.
Stefan
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- Re: Another VC terminology change?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/12
- Re: Another VC terminology change?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/10/12
- Re: Another VC terminology change?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/12