[POLL] Mass renaming options for consistency + guidelines

[Augie Fackler]

> On Oct 14, 2017, at 12:38 AM, Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz at google.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 19, 2017, at 10:14 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
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> >> On Jul 19, 2017, at 09:11, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
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> >>>> 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.
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> > 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.
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> So, in reviewing https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D932, it was noted that https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/UIGuideline?action=diff&rev1=10&rev2=11 concluded that there was a decision, but I don’t see any kind of consensus on this thread. Are we comfortable with this as the guidance going forward?
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> I am, but I wanted to make sure there’s some well-documented consensus of the policy change.
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> Me too. Hyphen-separated words sounds good (just repeating that here to clarify that that is the decision we're talking about).

Yep, that’s the one. Right now, my understanding of positions on hyphen-separated-words is as follows:

durin42: +1
martinvonz: +1
David Demelier: +1
Yuya: ? (I think +0 on hyphens at least for new config knobs?)

Please add yourself via reply if you have an opinion, or correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks!
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