Call for discussion: Phase names

[Olle]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 21:43, Angel Ezquerra <ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2012 8:46 PM, "Matt Mackall" <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:11 +0100, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
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>> > On 17 janv. 2012, at 19:24, Matt Mackall wrote:
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>> > > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:58 +0100, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>> > >> Matt Mackall notified on IRC that the content of this discussion
>> > >> convinced him to reconsider the rule "not have conflicting initials" and
>> > >> replace "secret" by "private".
>> > >>
>> > >> The current naming scheme is now:
>> > >>
>> > >>    public / draft / private
>> > >>
>> > >> The according option will be
>> > >>
>> > >>    * --public (no short option)
>> > >>    * -d --draft
>> > >>    * -p --private
>> > >
>> > > Please only have long options.
>> >
>> > ???
>> >
>> > Since I've a phase enabled mercurial, I use "hg phase -fs" or "hg
>> > phase -d" on regular basis ?
>> >
>> > What are your rational for removing short version ?
>>
>> Do you _really_ think we won't get bug reports that looks like this?
>>
>> "Hey, Mercurial is broken! I tried to do this:
>>
>> $ hg phase -p tip
>> nothing changed
>> $ hg phase tip
>> draft
>>
>> Why won't this damn thing let me mark my changeset public???
>> "
>>
>> If so, you're vastly overestimating the memory, patience, and
>> meticulousness of the average software developer.
>>
>> (For the record, I try to use hg status -r or -c instead of --rev or
>> --change on a weekly basis so I'm not about to accept any argument to
>> the contrary.)
>>
>> Long options are the price of using private instead of secret as the
>> phase name.
>>
>> --
>
> Must the short options be the first letter of the long option?
>
> If not, what about using the first vowel, which is different for each of the
> phase names and also is easy to remember?
>
> That is:
>
> --public: -u
> --draft: -a
> --private: -I
Ugh, that's horrible. I would rather see that mercurial kept the
secret name and provided short options. I'm an avid user of short
options and having long options will cost me infinitely more time than
explaining that secret = private for anyone that ponders the
semantics. Hell, I'd even prefer using public < draft < own as a
replacement for public <draft < private if i get to keep the short
options.
>
> cheers,
>
> Angel
>
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Olle