[POLL] Mass renaming options for consistency + guidelines

[Augie Fackler]

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 09:11, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> 
>>> I prefer not doing mass renaming that would generate lots of "deprecated"
>>> config names in use around user hgrc and web documents. But if I had to
>>> choose one, I would vote for dashes/hyphens.
>> 
>> We could also do what gmail does with email addresses and periods:
>> they allow extra periods anywhere (I think). So allowpull and
>> allow-pull and all-owpull would be all be the same config option. Just
>> a thought; I'm not sure what I think.
> 
> I'm not a fan of ambiguating identifiers. It smells like case-insensitive fs,
> computer language, etc. that do sometimes surprising.

Agreed. I had previously proposed exactly this, but in the intervening years I've come to agree with Yuya that it's likely to be more confusing than anything in the long run.