Call for discussion: Phase names

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jan 9 16:24:33 CST 2012


On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:16 -0600, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 20:28 +0100, Olav Reinert wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>    personal, mine, isolated, tentative, shy, scratch, jailed, moored, anchored, grounded
> > 
> > I don't like any of these even a little. I think it needs to be
> > synonymous with private, which basically limits the possibilities to
> > 'private', 'secret', and 'restricted'. 
> 
> 
> Perhaps this has been suggested and rejected already, but what about: public / draft / local ?
> 
> Pro: it's a reasonable antonym of 'public', particularly in the phrase "local changes"
> Con: it's also the antonym of 'remote', as in 'remote repo' vs. 'local repo'

It's not horrible, but it's a bit more ambiguous about intent than
private/secret/restricted.

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