[PATCH] hgwatchman: new experimental extension

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Tue Feb 23 14:20:18 EST 2016


Martijn Pieters <mj at zopatista.com> writes:

> (resend, to include the list, apologies to Gregory)
>
> On 16 February 2016 at 17:22, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Should the extension be named "watchman?" "hg" is redundant, don't you think?
>
> Well, the extension was originally named watchman (see
> https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hgwatchman/commits/461c9146cc4c1f4db51122b39c8af745118d9e75),
> but I *think* that can be confusing when the extension is not the
> watchman project itself. This is the integration layer between hg and
> watchman, hence hgwatchman.
>
> So, personally I think we should stick with hgwatchman to prevent
> getting confused over what part of the whole is being addressed.

I don't really agree with that. This is an extension that's going into
core Mercurial. None of the other extensions (except for hgk and the now
defunct hgcia) start with 'hg'.


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