[PATCH 4 of 5 V3] update: specify custom conflict markers for update (BC)

Siddharth Agarwal sid at less-broken.com
Thu May 15 17:41:46 CDT 2014


On 05/15/2014 02:18 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2014 21:05:53 +0000
> Durham Goode <durham at fb.com> wrote:
>> I don¹t think normal users have a great understanding of the difference
>> between the working copy and the repository.  Œdestination¹ at least
>> differentiates itself from working copy in that the working copy is your
>> files, and destination is where you¹re going, especially since this only
>> shows up during an hg update.
> I'm not sure how someone can use hg without understanding the
> difference between working copy and repository.
> On the other hand the word "destination" is confusing here. You claim
> that the "destination" is where you fetch the changes *from*, but my
> own intuition is that the "destination" of an update is the working
> copy, i.e. where you put the changes *into*.

What about 'target'? I can see where the confusion about 'destination' 
comes from, but I think 'repository' is far more confusing.


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