Re: [Gnu-arch-users] duplicate terms for the same things

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Like you know, we're currently translating the tutorial in french (see the
> wiki pages). And i see that there is a lot of duplicate terms for sames
> things.
> patch, changeset, patch-set...
> and even for commands : changes, what-changed, changeset, mkpatch...
> It's difficult to be sure that it's really the same things or not. 
> It will help us if someone could write a page on the wiki to show wich
> commands and terms are *exactly* the sames.

Any command that doesn't say that it is an alias of another command is a
real command. For your reference, the commands that are just aliases for
other commands are:

                         add : (alias for add-id)
                      delete : (alias for delete-id)
                        move : (alias for move-id)
                  default-id : (alias for explicit-default)
                     mkpatch : (alias for changeset)
                     dopatch : (alias for apply-changeset)


While some commands look similiar on the surface (e.g. replay and
update), they are actually different commands that don't do quite the
same thing. 

> There is a lot of commands in tla, why did you add also alias ?

One of the reasons for aliases is it allows arch developers to change
the names of commands while allowing for backward compatibility. 

Regards,
James

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