[PATCH 0 of 2] mq: add qfrozen command to protect patches from careless modification
FUJIWARA Katsunori
fujiwara at ascade.co.jp
Sun Jun 14 22:17:53 CDT 2009
At Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:19:08 -0400,
Greg Ward wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:14 PM, FUJIWARA
> Katsunori<fujiwara at ascade.co.jp> wrote:
> > This patch add 'hg qfrozen' command, which maintains list of FROZEN
> > patches, and FROZEN one prevents qrefresh, qdelete, qfold and qfinish
> > from modifing its content.
>
> I'm inclined to agree with those who think this is unnecessary, and
> that mq has quite enough commands already. That said, I think that a
> better name for the command would be 'qfreeze': commands are verbs,
> and 'frozen' is an adjective (the past participle of "to freeze", as
> in "the lake is frozen"). You don't "frozen" a patch, you "freeze"
> it.
Thank you for your comment, Greg.
I was suggested by timeless at gmail.com to use 'qfrozen' instead of
'qfreeze' at my previous patch post.
# sorry, if I mis-understood > timeless
I also thought verb is better than adjetive for command name, but had
less assurance that 'qfreeze' is bettern than 'qfrozen' for English
native speakers.
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