From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yasushi SHOJI Subject: RFC: s/git-merge-base/git-find-common-ancestor/g Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:02:19 +0900 Message-ID: <874q8s6q9w.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com> References: <7vr7c02zgg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7virxbtder.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 11 09:03:34 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EELrW-00065R-Ok for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:02:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964794AbVIKHC3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964792AbVIKHC3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:02:29 -0400 Received: from shop.atmark-techno.com ([210.191.215.173]:60623 "EHLO mail2.atmark-techno.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964791AbVIKHC2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:02:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.local-network (dns1.atmark-techno.com [210.191.215.170]) by mail2.atmark-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC50C2FA2; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:02:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from wat.atmark-techno.com (unknown [192.168.10.81]) by smtp.local-network (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B07AB61F; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:02:52 +0900 (JST) To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7virxbtder.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: At Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:14:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The "master" branch post 0.99.6 already has the renamed tools > with backward compatibility symlinks. I'll be sending a > patch to address an issue raised by some people separately to > see what the list thinks, and also will attempt to send out a > patch for the Pasky and Catalin heads later this week. Also > I'll remove the ancient backward compatible environment variable > names from gitenv.c. everything seems very consistent indeed, except one command: git-merge-base I've already got used to it. but, at first, the name gave me the impression that it merge the current branch with given base point. the current documentation says: Finds as good a common ancestor as possible for a merge so would it be better to rename it to: git-find-common-ancestor That's what the command does after all. -- yashi