Help designing the evolve UI

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jordigh at octave.org
Thu Apr 17 17:07:29 CDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 09:59 -0400, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> 
> On 04/17/2014 05:04 AM, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> > On 17/04/2014 04:27, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 04/16/2014 09:47 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
> >>> +1 to "prune": "kill" is a bad name. I think "obsolete" can
> >>> technically be used as a verb... but let's not. "prune" is good.
> >
> > "replace" would have my preference, because of the binary
> > relation it expresses, which is absent from kill/prune.
> 
> -1
> 
> "replace" semantic fails short when there is not replacement. And this 
> will be the most common case for this command (currently `hg prune`)

An obsolete/pruned cset may or may not have a replacement, just like
it may or may not have a successor.

> To Jordi: For this discussion to be a success, someone (I'm looking
> at you) have to read though it and make sure relevant argument are
> gathered on the wiki page.

I'll be curating the wiki page.

- Jordi G. H.




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