Call for discussion: Phase names

[Olle]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:31, Jason Harris <jason at jasonfharris.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Olle wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 21:43, Angel Ezquerra <ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Infinitely more time? :)

A wild hyperbole appear!
You used "not comprehend", it was super effective!

>
>> Hell, I'd even prefer using public < draft < own as a
>> replacement for public <draft < private if i get to keep the short
>> options.
>
> I don't get it. If people are worried about the short form typing speed then
> it's trivial to set up an alias in their hgrc file like:
>
> [alias]
> phasep = phase --private
>
> or if one is obsessed with masochistic shortness then maybe even:
>
> pp = phase --private
>
> (Note also `phase --pr ...` will also work but of course that is two characters
> longer than `phase -p ...` and so for savings of "infinite time" it might be better to
> have an alias :) )
>

Having the ability to use aliases is a great user experience.
Crippling the command line, because people don't understand that
secret is not equal to the millitary clasification but rather "I
haven't decided to make this public yet." and forcing people to use
them for core functions of a specific command is *not*

> (Note probably this point is mute anyway since hopefully we won't have to make
> this step manually a lot. Or for the heavy command line users, they will likely
> just bake the phase change command into their own commands. Eg if one needs to
> do `hg phase --private ...;  hg rebase ...` a lot then likely the command line
> user will add some command like hg rebasep ... or maybe hg prebase ... etc.
> Then the users can save double infinite time :)
>
> Cheers,
>   Jason



-- 
Olle