[PATCH 1 of 1] churn: improve description

Cedric Duval cedricduval at free.fr
Wed Jun 17 14:52:09 CDT 2009


timeless wrote:
> >  bookmarks       Mercurial bookmarks

> >     "track a line of development with moving pointers"?

> I don't like 'pointers' but can't offer something better

markers?

> >  convert         converting foreign VCS repositories to Mercurial

> >     s/converting/convert/ ?

> to => into ?
> convert => import from ?

Perhaps, though within Mercurial the word 'import' usually carries the
semantics of adding into an existing repository (import/qimport
commands), while here a whole new repository may be created during the
process (incremental additions can be ignored for the sake of this
headline).

"turn a foreign or native VCS repository into a Mercurial one"?

Not happy about that either, but perhaps throwing thoughts will get
us somewhere eventually. :)

"create a repository from another one (foreign VCS or native)"?

> >  hgcia           CIA notification

> >     "integrate Mercurial with the CIA notification service"?

> the => a ? (is there *ONLY* one CIA in the whole world, or is it
> something for which many people can run their own instances?)

It is GPL, so I guess people could spawn their own. Whether that
happens, no idea.

> >  inotify         inotify-based status acceleration for Linux systems

"speed up status using OS facilities"?

-- 
Cédric


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