Need feedback for extension name

Oben Sonne obensonne at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 28 11:38:15 CST 2009


Hi *,

I've written an extension for Mercurial which is supposed to
automatically synchronize a local repository with a remote one. The
extension does a duplex synchronization, i.e. it first commits changes
in the local repository (optionally with automatic tracking/untracking
of new/missing files), then it pulls changes from the remote repo,
tries to merge them and finally it pushes all changes back to the
remote repo. All this happens continuously at a given interval. The
use case for this extension is to use Mercurial to automatically
synchronize data (configuration files, to-do lists, .. whatever)
between different work stations (e.g. between a user's home and work
station). I think Mercurial is a great tool for this task as it is
able to merge conflicts (to some extend) and the change history allows
to review automatic synchronizations and to undo/fix possible errors
in synchronization.

The extension is ready to to get published but I'm not sure yet about
the name. I would like to call it the 'sync' extension, because this
is what it does. However, as 'sync' is a quite generic term, I wonder
if it somehow might cause conflicts or ambiguities within the
Mercurial universe.

So here is my question: Does anyone of you see problems with this name
or has ideas for a better one?

Thanks in advance for some feedback!

Oben


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