[PATCH RFC] filtering: rename filters to their antonyms

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Kevin Bullock <
kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> wrote:

> > This change seems a good move to prevent later confusion and head
> blowing as we had with obsolescence marker direction.
>

Agreed.

> The change seems pretty ok itself except I'm not fan of "nonvolatile".
> Can we find an alternative around the "Foundation" (of building) concept?
>
> Alternatives I considered when writing this changeset late last night
> included "petrified", "solid" (easily confused with old phase/"liquid"
> terminology), "static" (perhaps the most overloaded term in computing).
>

I'll personally be very disappointed if we can't work in a reference to
ice-nine somewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
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