deltaparent or deltabase; let's decide

Sune Foldager cryo at cyanite.org
Fri May 6 07:43:32 CDT 2011


On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:34:49 +0300, timeless wrote:
>On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> In the context of bundling, we're using deltabase to mean 'what this
>> delta is based on', so it's actually somewhat logical. And it's no more
>> or less wrong than 'deltaparent', because it's not necessarily a parent
>> in our usual sense either. So we need another synonym. Possibilities:
>> deltafrom, deltabasis, deltaagainst, deltareference.
>
>perhaps baselinedelta ?

It's not a delta, though, it's a base version _for_ a delta.
So it would be deltabaseline, in that case :)


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