[PATCH] hgwatchman: new experimental extension

[Siddharth Agarwal]

On 2/23/16 14:13, Sean Farley wrote:
> Siddharth Agarwal <sid at less-broken.com> writes:
>
>> On 2/23/16 13:57, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:48:31PM +0100, Martijn Pieters wrote:
>>>> So, personally I think we should stick with hgwatchman to prevent
>>>> getting confused over what part of the whole is being addressed.
>>> I'm convinced the hg should stay. Anyone else have strong feelings either way?
>> As the person who actually named the extension in the first place, I
>> think the 'hg' should stay as well. Just the name 'watchman' is really
>> ambiguous -- as Martin said, does it refer to the watchman service
>> itself or to the integration layer?
> How is it confusing? The only place this name will show up is:
>
> hg --config extensions.watchman= status
>
> ?

It's confusing to the user that's trying to enable it for the first 
time. Oh, they turned the watchman extension on. Shouldn't that be 
enough? What's this extra tool you need to download and install? Why is 
that called 'watchman'? What's the relationship between the 'watchman' 
tool and the 'watchman' extension?

The two extra characters in 'hgwatchman' answer all of these questions 
with remarkable brevity.

- Siddharth