From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Use --find- instead of --detect- as prefix for long forms of -M and -C. Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:11 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1289420833-20602-1-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org> <1289420833-20602-2-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org> <7884E3F5-D622-49E2-BEBE-12936F388C30@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Yann Dirson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 12 04:57:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGklh-0004sJ-Tk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:57:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753733Ab0KLD4d (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:56:33 -0500 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:43840 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753360Ab0KLD4d (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:56:33 -0500 Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.192]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id oAC3uD1i015146; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:13 +0900 (JST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id oAC3uCL23170; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay41.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.9]) by vgate01.nec.co.jp (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAC3bk3D009314; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay41.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay41.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.96.110] [10.114.96.110]) by relay41.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 2F4DA52E1F9; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <7884E3F5-D622-49E2-BEBE-12936F388C30@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:00:05 -0800") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kevin Ballard writes: > I'm not sure I like the wording --find-copies and --find-renames. Maybe I'm > just being silly, but it sounds like those are directives, saying "I want you > to find copies/renames", as opposed to just saying "while you're working you > should also detect copies/renames". The original flag --find-copies-harder > is a bit different, because it's modifying the action of finding copies > rather than making finding copies the prime directive. > > On the other hand, --detect-copies and --detect-renames sounds to me like > you're just telling it that it should, well, detect copies/renames as it goes > about its business. I agree. The current names are better than the proposed names. [For the reasons you state.] -Miles -- The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. [James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]