Re: [bitbake-devel] [docs] [PATCH 1/2] bitbake-setup: rename "abort" rebase conflict stragegy to "halt"

Richard Purdie
2026-04-03T10:16:28Z

On Fri, 2026-04-03 at 12:04 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> The trouble with ‘reset’ is that it means resetting the whole system
> to its initial state. ‘Abort’ is about a stopping a particular
> operation such that the system is returned to the state before the
> operation started.
>
> I have no idea how INI has utterly failed to catch these nuances in
> its rationale you linked, and is even accusing the term of ‘lacking
> technical clarity’, but it certainly doesn’t help the cause.

"reset" also struggles as "git reset" means something quite different.

"attempt" is probably the closest other option we have since that
describes what it does rather than the way it recovers, the recovery is
then just implied.

I am torn on this, I recognise the concern around the word, equally,
the word does have two meanings and we do clearly fit one of the cases,
as Alex mentions, we are inheriting the issue from git too. I fear any
change we make here will hurt usability.

Cheers,

Richard